Round stones were also used as part of the wall defence, they would be drop down a shot and mash into a group of attackers, just one of them rolling into troops could do a lot of damage, like if you had archers behind a woven weave shield defence, it would break them up and push the archer out into the open, the one that did not get hit that is, there is a castle in France that had tube shots built into the gate walls. The slope wall if it's the one I am thinking about, then that wall was build to serve the docks
@MaxTSanches23 күн бұрын
My mother and father told me stories of their time as children in Southampton and Totton during the war. Thanks, mom & dad. :)
@DVD92726 күн бұрын
I was hoping we could see how it operates
@markchristian241Ай бұрын
There was a tunnel used to go from the globe pub to the air raid shelter it was sealed up it had all the names above the door who lost there lives how would I know I ived in the globe in the late 70s and use to play in the cellar of me dads old pub the globe in Bernard st
@angieell2632Ай бұрын
I live in Southampton, grew up in Eastleigh. An old lady I worked with as a teenager, who worked at pirellis during the war, told me that they had to dig a mass grave under The Common Park cos they didn't have time to dig separate ones. I dont know if they moved them all after the war ended or if its still there??
@shaneanderson7438Ай бұрын
Well i know in the grave yard in the common there are 100s of grave stones dating back 1912, then there's 100s in one section of army men from 1940
@CenturyHomeProjectАй бұрын
I just purchased one of his maps at an auction online. It’s a 16th century map of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. My husbands many time great grandfather was John Speed. I can’t wait for it to get here!
@wannabesleuthinsomethinАй бұрын
Then we’re distant relatives. Greetings fam! ❤
@southerneruk2 ай бұрын
According, relations, the pulled out a number of bodies, many were not complete, bits were missing, they did clear up what they could, but the fear was some will never be accounted for because the bodies disintegrated and there were bits of bodies that were buried in the shelter
@eric-wb7gj2 ай бұрын
With a direct hit like that, I'm not sure quite how they would tell who everyone in it was. Years ago I knew a man who was in the fire brigade in Southampton during the early part of the war. He mentioned this very incident, & said he got there soon after, & it was horrible. He didn't elaborate further. His recollection was that they quickly filled the trench in, with remains inside. He had relatives who worked on the railways, & one was an ARP Warden. He stated;- - Due to all the old medieval cellars, they had been knocked through, so the wardens didn't have to come up from below ground during air raids. - Locomotives sometimes fell into these old cellars around the city, where the railway line had been built over them. - Locomotives & teams were sent out to try & find bombs that had dropped near railways. His relative didn't like this as vibrations could set off bombs. - He was working in the fire brigade when the docks got hit hard. There was a large warehouse with rum which caught fire. Due to the fumes, the fire crews got drunk. Their commanding officer came down & was going to put them all up on disciplinary charges, until it was found out what happened. - He used to go up into the brick towers of the Royal South Hants Hospital, & report the angles of where he'd seen the bombs drop back to the command center. A friend of his in the fire brigade did the same watch on different times, but didn't like the RSH, as when he went there, bombs fell nearby.
@peterw43382 ай бұрын
My mother went to the shelter with her newborn baby, the shelter was packed and she became claustrophobic and ran out to head to her mother’s home. Her living account was that the victims were buried in the shelter and left there.
@smmx652 ай бұрын
AND ITS STILL A S*** HOLE NOW
@jwmarshallsay2 ай бұрын
I am an expert on the Blitz of Portsmouth. I knew Southampton was badly hit, and this documentary really shows how severe it really was. My sincere sympathy to the families who suffered. God bless them all.
@peterw43382 ай бұрын
Strange as Rotterdam was bombed even more yet is the most successful port in Europe.
@rollogillespie91692 ай бұрын
My Mother was born 1915 and from Shirley. She was cycling home during a raid and said "I should not have been outside but gone to a shelter." A bomb exploded across the road, and she had a fractured femur and huge scarring from the shrapnel.
@stevenbrindle18082 ай бұрын
That was fantastic, Rebecca, thank you so much, I have loved these paintings for years, but you have taught me so much more about them
@Celticcross6883 ай бұрын
My Grandmother was born 28 Lansdowne Hill 1883..
@Celticcross6883 ай бұрын
They are not forgotten ❤
@VincentComet-l8e3 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, as in other towns and cities, Architects & Town Planners (who were supposed to be on our side) contributed greatly to the destruction and vandalism originally caused by the Luftwaffe, with results visible to this day…
@michaelfoyАй бұрын
Agreed....I come from Portsmouth and grew up playing on bombsites in the late 50's....Now live in Exeter, which Hitler had bombed just to destroy what had been a Beautiful medieval city....The Re-builds unfortunately happened in grey concrete-time, ugly and out-of-place buildings.... after just a few years.....Southampton still had overgrown bombsites around the docks area in the 80's......
@RICHARDHAYSOM-us5tu4 ай бұрын
Thanks for good short film. Helped explain how things were in Southampton - This in The era of my grandchildren’s Great Grandparents’ life on the home front in wartime Soton
@terryblackman62174 ай бұрын
Many thanks. Very interesting.
@therespectedlex97945 ай бұрын
I didn't know the civic centre was bombed.
@kenc41045 ай бұрын
As a child, Tudor House was one of the places to visit when we had nothing else to do! The ignorance of youth.
@marvinc99946 ай бұрын
Southampton - home of the Spifire and Benny Hill!
@user-vr1np2mo6h4 ай бұрын
@@larrystreak1044 Southampton.
@hazharibo74398 ай бұрын
I'm from near Coventry. We got flattened too
@richardspeed71359 ай бұрын
Sad
@wannabesleuthinsomethin10 ай бұрын
John Speed was my 11th great grandfather.
@davidfarmer204911 ай бұрын
Why cant we just listen to the account with out silly violins in back ground.
@rivco5008 Жыл бұрын
My mom was 13 in 1940, living in a part of Southampton called Bitterne. The house she was born in is still there, I found it on Google Earth. On many levels she never got over what she went through in the fall and winter of 1940. She met my dad, a US Navy sailor from Los Angeles in 1944 when she was in the WAAF, and came to America in 1950. Landed in New York City, then the train all the way to California where she lived for the next 52 years. She died on 6 October 2002 & we all still miss her.
@dazdeluxe667218 күн бұрын
@@marvinc9994 @marvinc9994 You think it was one Man? It was caused by the European Royals and Their bankers, fighting over colonies, after ww2 We were doing the same as the Nazis and killing millions of Africans to try and take Our colonies back, killing Men Who fought for Us in the war ( the mau mau for example). Hitler wanted to copy Us, He admired the way We brutalised and enslaved India, He is quoted as saying that They wanted to do the same in Russia. WW1 was caused by Germany wanting a slice of middle Eastern oil, read about the Berlin to Baghdad railway They were building.
@nirvairsingh1678 Жыл бұрын
Imy wish to see Southampton I am from panjab can you give me sponser
@davideddy5877 Жыл бұрын
Just lovely
@chucks6781 Жыл бұрын
I remember the yanks at this camp as they always handed out chewing gum to us kids playing cricket on the edge of the park & giving us a Christmas party with a small gift from Santa Claus
@kbraz1970 Жыл бұрын
I recently bought one from someone who had no idea what it was. Would have been nice in your video for you to show the skirt lifter in more detail, also given us the name of the maker etc.
@ashleymoye6829 Жыл бұрын
Do you have locations for some of these images? Can only figure out the High Street ones
@PJFreeman369 Жыл бұрын
I spent many hours in cells back in 1996 and 1997.
@montbrehain Жыл бұрын
An excellent telling of a little known and sad part of our local history. I have walked by the plaque often and always spare a thought and pay my respects. A few years ago a mate and I went on a "Southampton Blitz" guided tour which took us to many unknown and often overlooked and forgotten shelters. There are many tales like this that deserved to be told and remembered. Thanks for this one...
@davidknowles3459 Жыл бұрын
Also in that shelter were some Edwin Jones staff,who couldn't get into the Edwin Jones Shelter.Anold man told me that a jacket had been blown up into a tree.It had been left there,but after a few weeks it was taken down as the arms of the jacket were flapping in the wind,and scaring some people
@jimbyrne1844 Жыл бұрын
Excellent work here!
@comeonengland5312 Жыл бұрын
Had a few kips in there back in the old days
@Devinaydinsagun Жыл бұрын
Do a video about debunking the titanic federal reserve theory
@KnowledgeAddicted2 жыл бұрын
It got poop emoji pattern. I like it.
@hilliardbynd84122 жыл бұрын
🤦 P𝐫O𝕞O𝓢m
@gingerhebblethwaite2 жыл бұрын
We found one of these (though rather less fancy) in my grandmother's house and was curious to learn more. It was with some trepidation that I typed the search term into KZbin! Thank you for the video.
@southamptonculturalservices2 жыл бұрын
I'm glad your KZbin search found us! The next step is to try your grandmother's skirt lifter out in real life- you just need to get hold of a crinoline!
@AussieSaintJohn2 жыл бұрын
Good to learn some history of my hometown, even though I'm now an Australian for 3 decades...
@Seelieness2 жыл бұрын
My Great Great Grandparents lived in this house. I am yet to travel to the UK to see it, but someday soon I hope. Thank you for the glimpse inside.
@johnsanders22202 жыл бұрын
Well done Andy et al
@Haihiru2 жыл бұрын
Haha, you can see the shape of the light tubes as they reflect in the lens 0:26
@adrienneberger36422 жыл бұрын
My wonderful 1923 Tudor Revival house has a secret room!
@garryferrington8112 жыл бұрын
So much of the history of slavery has been glossed over. One thing to Britain's credit (amongst it's frightful imperialist record) is that it did not take a civil war to abolish slavery.