Fanny adams1/6/2024 ![]() ![]() On August 24th 1867 eight year old Fanny, her younger sister Lizzie, and best friend Minnie Warner went off to play in the local Flood Meadows not far from their homes in Tanhouse Lane. Fanny was a little girl that was born in Alton in 1859 and suffered a terrible fate. We had no idea that it was a real person. In fact I thought that ‘ Sweet F A‘ stood for ‘ F*** All‘ and the name could have been some sort of rhyming slang added. ![]() Now we’d heard the expression ‘ Sweet Fanny Adams‘ or ‘ Sweet F A‘ as I sure everyone else had but just assumed it was some sort of Americanism that didn’t really mean much. “The Curtis Museum in Alton” Sweet Fanny Adams Our favourite type of museum! A mixture of local and national history was displayed excellently but the story that caught our eye and attention was this. Two extremely friendly ladies welcomed us with the wonderful news that the museum was free. Alton seemed like a nice place but didn’t appear to have much history so we headed for the Curtis Museum to see what we could discover. We are currently housesitting in Cheriton in Hampshire which you should know if you’ve been following the blog (if you don’t then I’m shocked) and thought we would pop over to the town of Alton about 30 minutes east to have a look at their Tuesday morning market. Sometimes we know what we’re looking for, guided by a leaflet or advised by the local tourist information office, but occasionally we stumble across a story that we had absolutely no idea about. We have been lucky enough to discover an increasingly large number of quaint villages and fascinating towns on our travels and always search for interesting local stories and history. As we wander from town to town living in various locations and sleeping in different beds we always do our very best to explore the local area and visit as many new places as possible.
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