I was travelling around in this, well not this one but one of many like it.
Anyway back on topic!
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Above Bar (looking towards London Road) courtesy of the excellent Historic Southampton Twitter feed:
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Originally posted by @Goatboy
Above Bar (looking towards London Road) courtesy of the excellent Historic Southampton Twitter feed:
Too young to remember trams (last one ran in Southampton on this day in 1949) but one of my first memories of Southampton city centre is the shop to be seen on the right of this picture where they’re clearing snow.
Can’t remember the name of the shop but it was a specialist coffee shop…not a cafe but a coffee importer. It had a rotating drum coffee roasting machine in the window that vented the heavenly aroma of freshly roasted coffee beans into Above Bar.
My mum used to take us into town on the bus every Saturday morning as kids in the 1950s. The routine was always the same…off the bus at The Junction, across the road to look in the coffee shop window and smell the roasting beans, head up towards London Road to The Bird Aviery to feed pennies to the Jackdaws and call “Hello Joey” to the Macaw who would repeat it back to you. 
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There’s not a padlock in sight on any of those pushbikes.
A trusting lot our forefathers
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One of Saint’s sponsors at the time was The Milk Marketing Board.
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Man Utd in the FA Cup 5th rd. Feb 26 1977. Thousands of the bastards turned up without tickets and there was no end of trouble.
Great game. 2-2 with all the goals in the 1st half. Worst bit was the fucking old twat of a steward who came down from one of the Chocky boxes with 20 minutes togo and open the gate at the back of the Milton, to let people leave early.
Cue (or queue) several hundred plastic Mancs piling in, with most of us backed up against the front barriers, scrapping for our lives.
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And anyone know the reason the Super Bowl Trophy was in Southampton? This was over the last couple of weeks… bit odd.
Originally posted by @Sfcsim
Anyone know where this is?
Of course…the west side of The Bargate in the late 1930s. The east side was opened up in around 1934 and the crescent of new shops built (in the background of this pic). This picture shows the demolition of the buildings that used to abut The Bargate on the west side creating the island that isolates it from the traffic to this day.
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The council certainly fucked up the town since that was taken.
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This picture and the milk drinking one are from here by the way
Highly recommended if you grew up thinking Ron Davies was God
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Originally posted by @cobham-saint
Originally posted by @Goatboy
Courtesy of Historic Southampton on Twitter:
The council certainly fucked up the town since that was taken.
Yep, the Luftwaffe made a better job of it than those clowns
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I lived opposite the Brook for a couple of years in the mid 90’s. Looks like just bushes back then, so a slight improvement on my digs in the 90’s.