HERE is another in what has proved a very popular series of images published in the Advertiser in recent years — Yesterday and Today.

Andover, in the late 1960s / early 1970s was on the cusp of redevelopment and much of Andover was captured by a keen local photographer, the late Jeffrey Saunders.

The photo above shows the High Street entrance to the Chantry Centre which, from opening in 1970, was ‘open to the elements’, until later in the last century. The first Tesco in Andover occupied this entrance site, but closed down many years later only to re-open later as a Tesco Metro. Today it is the site of Poundstretcher. Elgin House to the left of the entrance used to host Bath Travel (which later moved down Lower High Street and is now called Hays Travel) along with the Newbury Building Society, which now occupies all of the ground floor.

The photo to the right shows the Chantry Centre looking back down the entrance concourse. Boots is the last retailer still located today at their original site. Sperrings — newsagents and bookshop — occupied what is today the site of The Body Shop and Tui Travel.

The final photo is taken from a tree and bush-less central reservation of Western Avenue showing the then new surface-level-only car park occupied today by the bus station and multi-storey car park.

Today’s picture was taken further south to enable some view of the multi-storey car park!

If you have any interesting photographs of yesteryear you are willing to share, send to Derek Kane, Andover Advertiser, 2b Union Street, Andover, SP10 1PA, email derek.kane@andoveradvertiser.co.uk or call 01264 321202.