Southampton Pictorial Peep into the past

Photo of an illustration in an 'Echo' publication, published by Southern Newspapers Ltd. 45 Above Bar, Southampton SO9 7BA 1980.

Photo of an illustration in an 'Echo' publication, published by Southern Newspapers Ltd. 45 Above Bar, Southampton SO9 7BA 1980. My great grandmother was born near the Cross House. Her brother, also born there, was lost on the Titanic... www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/henry-dennis... qr-memories.co.uk/HenryDennisWitt

Photo of an illustration in an 'Echo' publication, published by Southern Newspapers Ltd. 45 Above Bar, Southampton SO9 7BA 1980. The Titanic left from Southampton on April 10, 1912.

Photo of an illustration in an 'Echo' publication, published by Southern Newspapers Ltd. 45 Above Bar, Southampton SO9 7BA 1980. c1840 by Artist W. Jefferson.

Photo of an illustration in an 'Echo' publication, published by Southern Newspapers Ltd. 45 Above Bar, Southampton SO9 7BA 1980. My great grandmother's brother was lost on the Titanic... www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/henry-dennis... qr-memories.co.uk/HenryDennisWitt Both Nellie and her brother Harry were born near the Cross House, see earlier post.

Photo of an illustration in an 'Echo' publication, published by Southern Newspapers Ltd. 45 Above Bar, Southampton SO9 7BA 1980. My great grandfather worked for the London and South Western Railway in Southampton. c1897 to1909, he and his family were living in Battersea and he was a Railwayman at the Vauxhall Nine Elms locomotive works. The locomotive works were transferred to Eastleigh between 1908 and December 1909, so he and his family moved in 1910 to Bishopstoke, Eastleigh, Southampton, where he was a Hammerman for the London South Western Railway Company. He had previously served in the Army, awarded the Egypt Medal being "in the operations up the River Nile and in the vicinity of Suakin 1884-85". His name is listed on the medal roll.

Southampton, my home town, in Hampshire, England. An 'Echo' publication, published by Southern Newspapers Ltd. 45 Above Bar, Southampton SO9 7BA 1980. Edited by Arthur L. Smith. 60 pages. 114 pictures in 2014/22 Alliteration 8/28 365 Days in Colour MDPD2014 39/365