Southampton Hidden History @SouthamptonHid1
Walks, talks, books, articles, podcasts, videos and radio shows from an award winning guide Southampton, England Joined April 2020-
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On Saturday 25 May between 10.30am and 1pm, "Knit-Wits", our wonderful knitting group at Portswood Library, will be selling some of their fantastic creations with funds raised in aid of local charity @giftofsight1
Southampton Forward and Westquay are on the lookout for a diverse range of creatives to participate in their South Coast Makers Market, part of the Multi-Stories event on 18-19 May. Learn more here: buff.ly/49SHkJD
72 years ago today, the @unisouthampton received its royal charter, making it the first university of the new Elizabethan age. Here is a part of the University charter. #ExploreYourArchives @HistoricalSoton @VisitSoton @SotonianHistory
High Street looking north in 1973.
You won't find too many dated covers around the Civic Centre, but I did find two this morning which were hidden away! @SouthamptonHid1 @HistoricalSoton
Southampton Castle location (Southern England) @HistoricalSoton image & reconstruction. Walls were strengthened because of French Pirate raids in the 1370s. Castle was one of the first to have cannon. #SouthamptonCastle #EnglishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt
Southampton's @Westquay area beside the fifteenth century Catchcold Tower and the thirteenth century Arundel Tower is just beyond it. @HistoricalSoton info & image turned into a reconstruction Gif. #EnglishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt
Southampton Central Train Station, UK. FULL Station Tour and Review youtu.be/J2GTRKNxqh4?si… via @YouTube
Remember this venue?
Old pictures show beauty of a New Forest village dailyecho.co.uk/news/24283467.…
The then New Baths on Western Esplanade, Western Shore was opened in March, 1892. The adjacent Lido was closed in 1977.
The Sportsman Inn was situated on West End High Street. This pub closed in 2003 and has now been demolished.
Aviator Amelia Earhart in June 1928 the South Western Hotel #Southampton. She gave a press conference there after arriving on Southampton Water.
This image from our archives shows a figure skater at #Southampton Ice Rink in 1966. The original rink was destroyed in the Blitz but rebuilt in 1952. After a refurbishment by Top Rank in the #1960s it closed in 1988. Image copyright unknown #SotonAfterDark #IceRink #IceSkating
Southampton High Street in the late nineteenth century. In 1854, an American visitor called John Choules wrote: ‘I hardly know a town that can show a more beautiful main street than Southampton, except it be Oxford.’
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Southampton Castle location (Southern England) @HistoricalSoton image & reconstruction. Walls were strengthened because of French Pirate raids in the 1370s. Castle was one of the first to have cannon. #SouthamptonCastle #EnglishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt
Southampton's @Westquay area beside the fifteenth century Catchcold Tower and the thirteenth century Arundel Tower is just beyond it. @HistoricalSoton info & image turned into a reconstruction Gif. #EnglishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt
The Sportsman Inn was situated on West End High Street. This pub closed in 2003 and has now been demolished.
This image from our archives shows a figure skater at #Southampton Ice Rink in 1966. The original rink was destroyed in the Blitz but rebuilt in 1952. After a refurbishment by Top Rank in the #1960s it closed in 1988. Image copyright unknown #SotonAfterDark #IceRink #IceSkating
#WW2 Catchcold Tower Southampton medieval Town walls @HistoricalSoton #ThenAndNow image turned into a Gif. #WorldWarTwo #History
61 Oxford Street, once the home of suffragette Lucia Foster Welch, Southampton’s first female councillor. She became the town’s first female mayor in 1927. In 1928 she welcomed Amelia Earhart to Southampton when she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an aeroplane.
The Kingsland Tavern, 76 St. Mary Street, #Southampton, SO14 1NY 🍻
Southampton’s oldest musical society, SOS Presents, celebrates its centenary with a new show. in-common.co.uk/2024/04/25/sou…
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@SouthamptonHid1 My Victorian pewter beer mug from the Horse & Groom, Southampton
@SouthamptonHid1 One of the earlier ones. Is the earliest late 1880s?
God’s House Tower needed work in 1624 and ‘if it be not spedilie repaired it wilbe to late to begynne to amende it... the Wall with Wett & Rayne dothe founder the Tymber dothe Rott the Iron ordnauncs eaten with Ruste, the leade stoln... the howse & doores [are] much broken...’
📢🔴⚪ Happy St George's Day! In honour of this, I've written a blog post about the HMHS St George, which my ancestor served on during WWI: andyvskinner.wordpress.com/2024/04/23/hmh… @HistoricalSoton @SouthamptonHid1 @marie_keates @SotonStories @SotonArchaeoSoc
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