Southampton’s Chapel Area – A Hundred Years of the Past

£14.99

Southampton’s Chapel Area – 100 Years of the Past revives each of its three dozen streets and tells their history with maps, photographs and the odd anecdotes of its more colourful characters An established author of several books on railways and local history, Dave Marden now writes about the place where he was born and brought up.

SKU: 9781780915609 Categories: , ,
Binding: Perfect Bound
Pages: 175Author: Dave Marden
 

Description

It is now half a century since Southampton’s Chapel area was swept away. A square half mile of tightly packed terrace houses had evolved on barren marshland and timber ponds to house the workers needed for the docks and railways from the mid 1800s Most of Chapel disappeared in the 1960s when the rush for regeneration saw dozens of streets erased from history and their thousands of residents dispersed to estates on the town boundaries. Virtually nothing of the old district remains but the memories linger on for those who experienced life there in a close knit community that grew together for generations.

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Weight0.347 kg
Dimensions23.4 × 15.6 × 1.1 cm

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