Southampton
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RMS Titanic ~ In memory of local crew members
14th April 1912 Everyone knows the story of the fateful demise of RMS Titanic on 14th April 1912, but I would like to make a special remembrance today, for all of those people in Southampton and the surrounding area, including Woolston, who lost a member of their family that day, since large numbers of the crew…
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Trains and Boats and Flights! A Day to Remember
We often spent a week in the summer holidays with out grandma in Woolston and I must have been about eight years old when she took my sister and I on a little adventure. We waited excitedly for the bus at the end of Newtown Road, Woolston and climbed to the top deck for the first leg of our journey to…
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When was the last flight from the River Itchen, Woolston, Southampton?
As Woolston is regenerated from a forgotten backwater, passed without a second thought by drivers taking the Itchen Bridge which was opened back in 1977, I hope it will remember its fascinating history. As I research Woolston, this little suburb of Southampton, the more fascinating the history becomes in my mind. I’m not old enough…