An Uncle of mine was a Home Guard who was manning the Home Guard Station that was positioned at a point between Queensway, and Houndwell place at the time of this raid. Whilst you are correct in your summary of the names of those killed in this particular incident, there may have been, and possibly were many other persons who could not be identified afterwards. It is also more probable that no one actually knew how many people were in the shelter at the time of the raid except for the ARP personnel manning the shelter, and how many of those ARP were survivors or victims? My late Uncles own account from this incident indicates to me that the air attack warning sounded less than 1 minute before the detonation of the device that hit this shelter, and that the local Home Guard were given orders to shoot on site any domestic animals in, or about the shelter sometime afterwards. A point I would also make you aware of is that since this incident, basic standard plants and flowers struggle to grow in the ground in this area indicating the possible presents of a heavy duty cement, my Uncle informed me that after the incident the remains of the shelter were filled with a form of cement to seal it up. The trees that were there at the time, and that are still there now are angled outward as they were dislodged by the explosion when it happened. You can still see those trees today, they are straight in trunk up to four or five feet in height, but then angle hard to the left or to the right pending on how they were affected by the blast at the time.

The last person I could trace in my genealogy was a man born into slavery. I keep hitting brick walls. He ended up teaching himself how to read and write in English and moved to NC

Very interesting, good drawings.

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

My mother and father told me stories of their time as children in Southampton and Totton during the war. Thanks, mom & dad. :)

I was hoping we could see how it operates

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

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??

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!

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

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.

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.

AND ITS STILL A S*** HOLE NOW

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.

Strange as Rotterdam was bombed even more yet is the most successful port in Europe.

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.

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

My Grandmother was born 28 Lansdowne Hill 1883..

They are not forgotten ❤

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…

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

Many thanks. Very interesting.

I didn't know the civic centre was bombed.

As a child, Tudor House was one of the places to visit when we had nothing else to do! The ignorance of youth.

Southampton - home of the Spifire and Benny Hill!

I'm from near Coventry. We got flattened too

Sad

John Speed was my 11th great grandfather.

Why cant we just listen to the account with out silly violins in back ground.

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.

Imy wish to see Southampton I am from panjab can you give me sponser

Just lovely

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

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.

Do you have locations for some of these images? Can only figure out the High Street ones

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...

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

Excellent work here!

Had a few kips in there back in the old days

Do a video about debunking the titanic federal reserve theory

It got poop emoji pattern. I like it.

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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.

Good to learn some history of my hometown, even though I'm now an Australian for 3 decades...

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.

Well done Andy et al

Haha, you can see the shape of the light tubes as they reflect in the lens 0:26

My wonderful 1923 Tudor Revival house has a secret room!

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.