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With the final of the men’s #EURO2024 tonight, we thought it would be a good time to share this 1961 photo from our archives showing some young footballers in #Southampton playing the beautiful game, with Queen Elizabeth in the background #ArchiveSecrets #Football #1960s
Penguins at the zoo on Southampton Common in 1962. The zoo was opened by James Chipperfield of the famous circus family, operating for nearly 25 years before it closed in 1985 #ArchiveSecrets #Zoo #Southampton #1960s
This photo from our archive shows a Scout parade at West Marlands on St George’s Day 1909. Founded in 1908, today the @Scouts teach young people new skills and encourages them to have adventures and make friends #ArchiveSecrets #StGeorgesDay #Southampton
Did you ever get your milk delivered, maybe you still do!?
This photo shows a Vines Model Dairy milkman delivering milk on Lodge Road, Southampton in about 1960.
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This #ValentinesDay we are sharing a love letter from our archive, written by William Lowman to his sweetheart (and future wife) Sarah Mitchell in 1857. William sends Sarah his “sweetest love” and refers to himself as her “ever dearest of lovers.” #ArchiveSecrets #Southampton
It’s #HumanRightsDay, the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This poster from our archive advertises the 1967 ceremony in #Southampton. A Romanian refugee lit the Amnesty Candle and local music groups performed #ArchiveSecrets
This photograph from our archive collection shows Burgess Street Farm in Swaythling, which for more than 20 years was home to the former Argentinian ruler Juan Manuel de Rosas. Exiled to Britain, de Rosas settled in #Southampton where he died in 1877 #ArchiveSecrets
With the children going back to school, it’s a good time to share this picture of a sewing class at Woolston R.C. School in 1920. St Patrick’s School stands on the site today #ArchiveSecrets #BackToSchool #Southampton #1920s
If you had an ancestor in the Merchant Navy during the years 1918-1941, email [email protected] to find their record, like this one for Zephaniah Dack, a trimmer born in #Southampton in 1895 #ArchiveSecrets #MerchantNavyDay
Southampton FC play their first game of the season on Friday, so here’s a photo of the 1920-21 team, who finished as runners-up in the Third Division, scoring 64 goals and earning 54 points #ArchiveSecrets #Southampton #Football #1920s #SouthamptonFC
These photos show families enjoying the miniature railway at Riverside Park in 1962. The railway was built by the Southampton Society of Model Engineers, requiring one ton of steel, 4,000 sleepers and 12,000 screws to make #ArchiveSecrets #MiniatureRailway #Southampton #1960s
A selection of items found beneath the floor of St Denys Church. Many had children’s drawings on the reverse, and some had been made into paper darts. The best thing? …they give a window into ‘everyday’ life in early 1920s #Southampton #ArchiveSecrets
Swimmers enjoying the #Lido, an outdoor pool on Western Esplanade, in the 1920s. Built in 1892, the Lido was a popular attraction for 89 years, until it closed in 1981 #ArchiveSecrets #Swimming #Southampton #1920s
Valentine St Ives and his wife Drusilla on their wedding day in Southampton in 1925. Valentine was a merchant seaman for the White Star Line who served on Aquitania and Queen of Bermuda. The couple wed at St Edmund’s Church on the Avenue #ArchiveSecrets #ValentinesDay
Santa has his sleigh, but this picture from our archives shows there’s more than one way to travel through the sky! #ArchiveSecrets #Hotairballoon #Southampton
This 1893 watercolour depicts vicar Father Francis Maundy Gregory examining some books by the tomb of Sir Richard Lyster in St Michael’s Church #ArchiveSecrets #Churches #Southampton #1800s
Undated postcard from our archive collection showing the #EmpireTheatre which became the #Gaumont by 1950, then the #MayflowerTheatre in 1987. At the time of opening in 1928 it was the biggest theatre on the south coast #ArchiveSecrets #Southampton #1900s @mayflower
HMS Southampton, the fourth Royal Navy ship named after the town, at sea after taking part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, the largest naval battle of the First World War #ArchiveSecrets #WW1 #BattleofJutland #1916
On 2 November 1523, this document from our archive was issued on behalf of Henry VIII ordering that everyone in #Southampton owning £40 or more in land and goods pay a tax to fund a war with France #ArchiveSecrets #Tudors #HenryVIII #1500s
Una Winifred Atwell was the first black artist to top the UK charts. This programme for her piano concert at the Gaumont Theatre in 1953 is signed by the “Queen of the Keys” herself #BlackHistoryMonth #ArchiveSecrets #GaumontTheatre #Mayflower #Southampton
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