Southampton

[Mudhen]

That's wonderful! Thank you so much!!! Here's hoping we actually get there to enjoy the pub!!!

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10 hours ago, Mudhen said:

Can we walk to the Red Lion from the cruise terminal?

 

As others have mentioned, it is an easy walk to the Red Lion, flat and level and only half or two-thirds of a mile, plus or minus depending on which cruise terminal is being used.  There are also taxis and ubers if you have too many pints for the walk back to the ship, or the weather turns rainy.

[Splice the mainbrace]

Southampton has a lot of historical buildings and is worth exploring but in the UK it isn't seen as a tourist destination as such. You can cover most of it in a day so is ideal for a stress free port day, there is much of interest to look at and visit, as well as a good shopping area.

 

Unfortunately a lot of historical buildings were destroyed in the WW2 blitz which was 80 years ago this November and December and are currently being commemorated. My mum was evacuated at the start of the war 30 miles West to the beach resort of Bournemouth, it's fortunate that she was as 15 of her class mates who didn't were killed when a bomb dropped on them when visiting the towns Art Gallery while sheltering in the basement. Some children had recently returned from evacuation because their parents thought that it was safe after the original mass evacuation a year earlier in Sept 1939.

 

Another little known fact is that a third of the Titanic victims were from Southampton (see below), there is a Titanic walk through the city that can be researched online. My Great Grandfather was offered a job as a steward on Titanic but was happy to stay serving on SS St Louis which he had been doing the transatlantic on for all of the decade before. Sorry enough of my family history!

 

How many people died and how many survivors were there?

On board Titanic were 2,224 persons - 908 crew and 1,316 passengers. Of these, 1,517 perished.

Over a third of those who lost their lives in the sinking came from Southampton - 549 souls. In total, 724 of the people on board the vessel came from Southampton.

Nowhere was the sinking of Titanic more keenly felt than Southampton, with whole communities devastated by the disaster.

In terms of the number of deaths from the total population, the impact the Titanic sinking had on Southampton was 20 times that the September 11 attacks had on New York.

 

 

 

[exlondoner]

There is a map on the floor of the museum showing where those who were drowned lived, and it is quite shocking. In some streets it looks like every third house.

 

i never understand those who think Southampton not worth bothering with. There is a lot of great interest there.

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35 minutes ago, exlondoner said:

There is a map on the floor of the museum showing where those who were drowned lived, and it is quite shocking. In some streets it looks like every third house.

 

This website has an interactive map ( historicsouthampton.co.uk  Interactive Map: Titanic Crew – Historic Southampton ) which shows where those in Southampton on Titanic lived and which ones died and survived.

 

The whole of Historic Southampton – Exploring Southampton's rich history website is worth a look at.