Interesting historical suggestions from SEE Southampton regarding the origins of the gateposts leading to Portswood Residents’ Gardens.
SEE Southampton These gateposts are at the Abbots Way entrance to the private gardens. I was once told that they came from Ogle House in the Above Bar but they do not match. I recently read in the Hampshire Field Club’s article on the Country...
read moreThe Gallows, Southampton Common
Inspired by the Bevois Mount History walk on Southampton Common yesterday, SEE Southampton has posted a historical account of the gallows in Southampton, originally written in The Echo. According to the article, the Ordnance Survey map of South...
read moreFrom the Hartley Institute to the University of Southampton
SEE Southampton This house (Picture 1) belonged to Henry Robinson Hartley, (1777-1850), a wealthy eccentric who was raised in Southampton and maintained an affection for the town. Hartley left money in his will for the establishment of a cultural...
read moreA Lucy Box near Highfield Road! See details below from Bevois Mount History!
Bevois Mount History Southampton This Lucy box is close to the junction of Highfield Road and the Avenue and would have been installed in 1903 when the tram extension to Highfield Road became operational.
read moreSEE Southampton and Soton Echo: on 14 June 2005, Southampton born writer and Portswood/Abbotts Way resident, Norman James Crisp, died aged 81. Remember his BBC TV Series?
He was the writer behind such BBC TV series in the 1960s and 70s as Compact, R3, Dixon of Dock Green, Dr Finlay’s Casebook, The Expert, The Brothers, Colditz and Secret Army. Didn’t realise he had been a resident of Portswood – in fact,...
read moreThe Albany Hotel which used to be in Winn Road
Used to be in Winn Road… Bevois Mount History Southampton The Albany Hotel opened in 1925 as the Stafford House Hotel.
read moreSome local Highfield history about R J Mitchell who died of cancer on this day in 1937.
SEE Southampton RJ Mitchell died of cancer on this day in 1937. His Spitfire plane first flew from Eastleigh in March 1936. His house in Russell Place, Highfield has a blue plaque on it. The film The First of the Few (1942) saw Mitchell being...
read morePhoto showing the opening of the Highfield campus in 1919
It is, or was, in the window of Building 40 – West Building (which includes the Old Refectory and part of the Students’ Union). SEE Southampton This photograph is in a window at the University and shows the opening of the Highfield...
read morePortswood Lodge and its relationship to Abbotts Way
Courtesy to SEE Southampton Interesting background to Abbott’s Way, named after William Abbott, and which was built on part of the site where Portswood Lodge used to be located. The Lodge was demolished in 1923. SEE Southampton...
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