Abbotts Ann, Little Ann

TOP BORDER:A row of cottages at Little Ann: The cottage on the right with four dormer windows, is Mallard Cottage, Group Capt. and Mrs Selby's home from 1976; the Old Rectory: a splendid Georgian house, now a private residence; three Virgins' Crowns in St Mary's Church: The Eagle Inn; a row of cottages in the centre of the village. The house with the white palings is the old School House, behind which is the school.

MIDDLE SECTION: Alan Selby's design for the middle section was a panoramic representation of the old houses of Abbotts and Little Ann from the north. The white cottage near the T-junction (of Mill Lane with Cattle Lane) in the centre foreground is Brook Cottage, the Selby's home until 1976. Two buildings in Mill Lane are Lower Mill and the Old Rectory. Opposite the Old Rectory is St Mary's Church. In the adjacent water meadows are six lime trees. The bright red building to the right of the lime trees is the War Memorial Hall. On the extreme left of the panel, by the side of the old Andover-Salisbury road, is the former Poplar Farm. The main village road, Duck Street, is on the right with the fork to Dunkirt Lane leading into the fields.

LOWER BORDER: This depicts the Pillhill Brook and some of the wild life to be seen in the water meadows. They include woodpeckers, hares, an exotic hoopoe and a heron. In addition to various flowers, there is also a pheasant, a splendid barn owl and a frog squatting by the brook. The panel's designer, retired Group Captain Alan Selby, died after having finished almost two thirds. Happily, his daughter completed it, incorporating her own "signature" in the panel - a whippet, in the guise of a cloud formation, to the left of the panel.