Sotonopedia

Some suggestions for exploring the resources of Sotonopedia:

Areas of Southampton:

Millbrook
Newtown
Northam
Portswood
Redbridge
Regent's Park
Shirley
Sholing
South Stoneham
Swaythling
Weston
Woolston

Mediaeval Southampton:

Bargate: the mediaeval gate to the town
Sir Bevis of Hampton: mediaeval ballad about the founding of the town
Don John: mediaeval merchant and mayor
God's House Gate and Tower: mediaeval buildings
God's House Hospital: mediaeval buildings
The Norman House: mediaeval building

Southampton artists:

Locke, Henry Edward: landscape artist
Lucas, Richard Cockle: sculptor
McFadden, Frank: portraitist, landscape artist and etcher
Meadows, Charles Henry: sculptor
Meadus, Eric
Millais, John Everett: Pre-Raphaelite artist
Mimpriss, Robert: art teacher and printmaker
Offer, Frank Rawlings: marine artist
Pether Family
Pontin, George
Read, David Charles
Shayer, William and Family
Skelton Family
Vaughan, Charles Anthony: decorative artist
Westlake, Eliza: landscape artist
Williams, Charles Frederick:landscape artist and art teacher

Family history:

The Local Studies Library holds several autobiographical accounts donated to the collection by local people and their families. For example, Mrs Q (born 1898) describes her childhood and life as a young adult. Her father was a railway worker in Redbridge and she went first to Redbridge Infants' School and then to Wimpson School. She talks in detail about her life as a child - going crabbing, trapping birds for sparrow pie, Christmas stockings, family members emigrating to Canada. She was apprenticed as a "Needle pusher" and later worked as a children's nurse for wealthy families in Southampton.

If you would like to consult these autobiographical accounts, please contact us.

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