A flight over The Common in August 1912!

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Jun 15, 2020 in Local History | 0 comments A flight over The Common in August 1912! Southampton Common Forum 11 June at 21:39  · Found this postcard of the pioneer French aviator Monsieur Henri Salmet flying his Bleriot monoplane over Southampton Common in August 1912. Bleriot himself made the first ever flight across the Channel in 1909 and that local pioneer Edwin Moon took his first flight in 1910. Given that planes were still very...
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The Cowherds through different decades

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Jun 11, 2020 in Local History | 0 comments Going from 1850s to 1950s. SEE Southampton Yesterday at 16:34  · THE COWHERDS IN DIFFERENT DECADES If you lived in The Town and owned a cow you could pay The Cowherd to take her to The Common to graze. He would collect the animals from outside The Bargate and herd them up to the land outside The Town that was owned by Lord Shirley until The Burgesses found against him in a land dispute in the...
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Bevois Valley around 1910

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Jun 10, 2020 in Local History | 0 comments The incline is there but the rest is barely recognizable… SEE Southampton 20 hrs  · Bevois valley around 1910.
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Why the University of Southampton’s Hartley Library was originally called the Edward Turner Sims Library

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Jun 10, 2020 in Local History | 0 comments Why the University of Southampton’s Hartley Library was originally called the Edward Turner Sims Library. SEE Southampton Yesterday at 07:39  · Did you know that the University library was named the Edward Turner Sims Library when it was opened in 1935. Edward Turner Sims died in 1928 and in his will he expressed a wish for there to be some memorial to him at the University. In 1932 his...
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The spring in Hill Lane!

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Jun 6, 2020 in Local History | 0 comments The spring in Hill Lane! SEE Southampton 20 hrs  · Here we are inside and outside. Two Victorian views of the spring in Hill Lane that supplied water to the medieval town of Southampton.
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The Avenue in 1896. Note the unmade road surface.

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Jun 4, 2020 in Local History | 0 comments The Avenue in 1896… SEE Southampton 2 June at 09:46  · The Avenue in 1896. Note the unmade road surface.
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University of Southampton Special Collections – They came from near and far to do their patriotic duty – staffing the University War Hospital

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Jun 4, 2020 in Local History | 0 comments University of Southampton Special Collections They came from near and far to do their patriotic duty – staffing the University War Hospital Posted on November 9, 2018 by krspecialcollections | 3 Comments Staff at the University War Hospital, 1918 [MS1/Phot/39 ph3104] 11 November 2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War. To commemorate this, we take a look at the contribution of...
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At the Southampton Gold Course in Bassett. Opened on 28 May 1938.

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Jun 4, 2020 in Local History | 0 comments Didn’t realise it has been open since 1938! SEE Southampton 2 June at 12:52  · At the Southampton Golf Course in Bassett. Opened on 28th May 1938.
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