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Would like to see that.

That always makes me laugh - how the hell he/she is going to get that to the water god only knows! Perhaps his name is Noah and had a premonition!

Think the pub was called the Windsor. Can't remember what the bar down the stairs was called (would have been Manchester St tho'). But the best one was the Lord Louis.

Got my first skinhead in there - back in oh must be '79. Percy moved to Highfield road when they built the Marlands.

Oh yes - I knew the barmaid (from the same estate) would go in with enough for a pint and come out hours later paraletic with the money still in my pocket.

Remember doing a Project when at St Johns (bottom of the High St) on the history of Southampton where we visited all of the Vaults (there's one under the playground of St Johns - which is opposite the old Telecom building) really fascinating stuff.

There was definitley a plaque in Owen Owens - top of the stairs - probably still there if you could get to it now.

Funny that I now live in Woolston! Yeah wish my Mum was still around - she was a clippy on the Trams in the war. My mate moved to Thailand a few years ago - he has linked upto the cameras in the city - just so he can have a look at his home city which makes me laugh everytime I think about it!

I love this city! So much history and its all on your doorstep. I take it your from Northam (or do you stand there)? I was born on the estate and moved to Holyrood when I was about 2.

Nuclear!

Heres a site with some good references to most of the books available http://www.jakesimpkin.org/ArticlesResearch/WW2Southampton/tabid/76/Default.aspx

I think they were in a book called Southampton at War. I'll try to google later and see what I can find.

A load of us used to meet up in there before Saints home games - a few pints then walk up to Plesteads in the bus station for a Steak & kidney pie on the way to the game - halcion days.

Cheers - as I said it was all verbally passed to me. I've seen pictures of Hoglands park when it was used for the American army before D Day but that would have been a couple of years later.

Got my first pair of Adidas kick in there.

If you read some of the feedback on the link I think it mentions "mines" and that they have not been included. Not sure if this is just local legend but I can remember talk of an Air raid shelter in Hoglands park getting a direct hit and all they did was treat it as a mass grave and bulldozed it over - not seen anything anywhere about that and I'm pretty sure theres no plaque or statue in the park.

Showing my age but I can remember when it was Edwin Jones - was brought up not 100 yards from there. As to the night club - it was also called Jokers at one time or other.

The snooker hall was above and to the left - not sure if its still there but remember watching a couple of Saints games that were beamed in from somewhere like Sweden that got them when the UK didn't. Forgot about Argos - there's been quite a few in the footprint. There's a store around the back as well that covers the old rear entrance (ooeerr) of Owen & Owens.

I think there was a Dept store called Owen & Owen from memory - It didn't quite reach the Burger King corner, but it covered where the snooker hall and what was TK Maxx (previousky Gattis pub). There was a plaque in Owen Owen on the very top floor that commemorated the people that lost there lives when it was bombed (circa 1940) as some people back in those days lived in accomodation on the top floor. This is a good map of where all the bombs drop circa Nov/Dec 1940 http://blog.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/2010/11/mapping-the-southampton-blitz-70-years-on/

Are they really?? Which is the most democratic would you say?

Is that protestant or catholic?

So its the BDL now is it?

Which are?

So its militant Islam is it? How do you know which muslim is militant and which muslim is not? It doesn't appear to me that the EDL get into any kind of dialogue with any muslims well apart from demonstrating outside of Mosques.