Photos of HRA@50 Highfield/Portswood Walk-Talk with Godfrey Collyer (SEE Tourist Guide), Saturday 16 May 2026
Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 25, 2026 in News | 0 comments
In Highfield Close, off Brookvale Road: Attractive sunken garden and fountain in Highfield Close. Ellis Martin, well known OS map illustrator and local water colourist, lived at no 6.
Outside 116 Belmont Road, previously home to the First Officer of the Titanic:
In Highfield Church yard:
Sir Sidney Kimber, Mayor of Southampton from 1918-1920 and then Alderman, lived in Highfield. He helped shape modern day Southampton. Remembered by the ‘Kimber’ porch, designed by E. Berry Webber for Highfield Church, he is buried in Highfield Church yard.
Where the old tram shed used to be, now a student Hall of Residence with a sculpture of ‘horses’ on the outside to denote the horse pulled trams:
Where Herbert Collins’ parents lived (along Highfield Lane):
