old_southy Posted 26 June, 2012 Share Posted 26 June, 2012 Milton Road, The Dell Football Ground and St Mark's Church, Southampton, from the east, 1928 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surman4no7shirt Posted 26 June, 2012 Share Posted 26 June, 2012 Brilliant. Was looking for one of them yesterday when I saw the article on the BBC but couldn't get on the site because there was too much traffic. Are there many more of Southampton? What's the site again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old_southy Posted 26 June, 2012 Author Share Posted 26 June, 2012 http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/ is the site I found it on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
get_rich Posted 26 June, 2012 Share Posted 26 June, 2012 There are plenty of Southampton images... http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch?search=southampton Great stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint J 77 Posted 26 June, 2012 Share Posted 26 June, 2012 Milton Road, The Dell Football Ground and St Mark's Church, Southampton, from the east, 1928 Great photo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 26 June, 2012 Share Posted 26 June, 2012 Is there any interesting historical anecdote about the fact we couldnt even get a square piece of land to build it, meaning the Milton Road end was forever doomed to be p*ssed ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMidfieldGeneral Posted 26 June, 2012 Share Posted 26 June, 2012 ^ yeah exactly. There Must have been plenty of open land in soton back then.. Why there? Having said that... I still miss The Dell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 26 June, 2012 Share Posted 26 June, 2012 Milton Road, The Dell Football Ground and St Mark's Church, Southampton, from the east, 1928 Terrific pic, thanks for posting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint J 77 Posted 26 June, 2012 Share Posted 26 June, 2012 Its a shame the club could not retain the land obviously it wasn't possible at the time. I'm sure if we owned it today it could of been used by NC for a future Saints related project. Its a little sad to see the flats there now. I know selling the Dell was a necessary evil to fund our move to St Mary's but wasn't it sold on the cheap? I know it was a shed compared to St Mary's but it was a very special place in a lot of Saints fans hearts. I suppose those of us lucky enough to watch us play there will always have our memories of some great games and brilliant atmospheres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyinthesky Posted 26 June, 2012 Share Posted 26 June, 2012 ^ yeah exactly. There Must have been plenty of open land in soton back then.. Why there? Having said that... I still miss The Dell Think the land may have been owned by George Thomas who donated it to the Saints who had been playing at various nondescript grounds around the town, including the home of Hants CC It was one of the best stadiums in the country when opening in 1898 and, presumably, the ground was on the fringes of the city built up area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shufty Zubrik Posted 26 June, 2012 Share Posted 26 June, 2012 The 1920's Skatesmouth pictures look just the same as the cesspit today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stud mark of doom Posted 26 June, 2012 Share Posted 26 June, 2012 Is there any interesting historical anecdote about the fact we couldnt even get a square piece of land to build it, meaning the Milton Road end was forever doomed to be p*ssed ??? Some stuff on here I didn't know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dell_(Southampton) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 26 June, 2012 Share Posted 26 June, 2012 Some stuff on here I didn't know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dell_(Southampton) Few extra bits I had missed too despite reading a fair few of the Saints books. There is a great photo in one of the books with the Dell as it was when it was just a Woodland Dell. A little Macabre I know, it would be interesting to see the same photo taken in 1945, to see what was left after the war. The reason for this curiosity is due to 2 postcards on sale in Frankfurt one was dated 1938 the other 1946 quite astonishing. And we all know Southampton was battered from the air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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