As the main shopping street in Fareham, there’s always something going on in West Street.
Here we look through our archives for a slice of Fareham life in 2006 – in which we see classic car displays and a bizarre story about whistlers – yes, people who whistle – being allowed back into a newsagent.
HMS Collingwood field gun team stop for a photograph in Fareham Shopping Precinct at West Street, with Rainbow Centre service secretary Jo Candy, left, and office manager Julie Woodward, after pulling their gun and limber from the naval establishment in Newgate Lane. They were raising sponsorship for the Rainbow Centre in May 2006
Rachel Hicks, right, from the Fareham Fairtrade Working Group, shows a variety of Fair Trade products with Sue Thomasson, centre, and Sandra Villier from Sainsburys in West Street in March 2006
The new owner of Pyramid News in West Street, Fareham Dharshi Siva was welcoming back whistlers to the shop in March 2006. They had previously been banned by the former owner Salvatore Caminito who said people whistled to annoy him
Claire Worsley, 21, from north Fareham, with her Pride of Place photographic exhibition panel entitled "Growing Up" which was on show at Westbury Manor Museum, West Street in March 2006
