04/07/2026
As part of our Town of Culture bid we've been asked to create a postcard from Totton and Eling in support of what we think is needed culturally by our town. After lots of discussions before the bid, we wrote a message from a resident of 1000 years ago to a resident now for our postcard. Please send our postcard across Totton and Eling and beyond!
You can see our postcard and more on the map link below where there are postcards from other towns entering the Town of Culture competition.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1Su-761mY3NPLpd4d948m5ppY7R-bslw&usp=sharing
A postcard through time:
We share little but the stars and a bridge but that bridge links our two times.
My time - when it took a day to visit our two parishes. We met at the tide mill in the week and church on Sundays. We worked, ate and laughed together.
Today I wander as a stranger in a community grown by thirty times, yet still you find ways to come together. Your town combined to be Totton and Eling, linking villages in your journey.
But as you’ve sped along the way, you've lost a culture all your own.
So I send this postcard through time, a reminder of what's past so your town can find a culture in its future. Perhaps a new town with a country memory, your cultures bridged by community.
Forest and Industry, Friendship and Community, New and Old side by side
What would you say back to a resident here 1000 years ago?
