Southampton of old

[Block 18]

A short while ago my wife started to trace her family tree, in the process we found some addresses from the census records. Out of interest we tried to find the houses her ancestors were in at that given moment in time.

Naturally some still exist, others were part of Adolfs redesign plans for Southampton.

 

Anyway to cut a long story short, we found this site which you can navigate around Southampton either in the present day or time travel to either 1870 or 1845. I have spent several hours playing with these maps totally facinated by what was and what is left.

 

To get the 1870 / 1845 maps use the link and select the change backgound maps box, then choose either of the two. The 1845 is not very clear but the 1870 you can zoom right in and see all the detail, even the manhole outside South Westen House which is still there.

 

I was amazed at how may of the pubs are still in existance, some even with the same name, as for the area around the stadium, well have a look and see, but dont look for Britania Road it did not exist back then but the Britania hotel did. Have fun

 

 

http://map.southampton.gov.uk/gis/asp/MapFrameset.asp

[Redbul]

Rats ****s, Adobe SVG Viewer 3 doesn't work in Firefox. I'll have to fire up IE ****shudder****

[St Landrew]

Good find B18

[saint_stevo]

Rats ****s, Adobe SVG Viewer 3 doesn't work in Firefox. I'll have to fire up IE ****shudder****

 

I feel physically sick.

 

Feel like im cheating on Google Chrome