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Other Stuff in Southampton, Hampshire*

Southampton, Hampshire Stuff You Don't Get Anywhere Else

The Stuff We Can't Fit In Somewhere Else

• There are 2 mad old women who film students in the polygon. They hide in bushes in their dressing gowns filming into houses, plaster 'you are being filmed' stickers all over peoples windows and last year (apparently) they smashed up someones car. Avoid if possible.
• there's an organisation called southampton centre for independent living. mobility impaired web readers might find it useful www.southamptoncil.demon.co.uk For about half an hour sometime in mid September 2000 Southampton will have the largest city centre mall in western europe, when the new West Quay retail development opens.
• What about a map, and details of the hotels there . Where are they and contact numbers.
• We have three memorials to the stricken cruise ship RMS Titanic - a plaque for the musicians who played on, a larger memorial to the engine crew and a tall monument to everyone else. There is a plaque on the wall of the Ocean Village complex that says that the first ever Japanese citizens to leave Japan in the 19th century first set foot at Southampton docks. Southampton has the world's oldest bowling green - you can find it next to God's House Tower archaeology museum.
• Southampton 18 Plus meet every Wednesday at 8:30pm in the upstairs function room at "The Anchor" 61 Test Lane, Redbridge, Southampton 18 Plus is a nationwide social and activities organisation for young adults aged 18 - 36. It offers its members the chance to meet new people, make new friends and enjoy a wide range of weekday and weekend activities on a local, Area and National basis. There are around 100 groups throughout the UK which hold regular weekly meetings and are run by their members for their members. http://www.biggles.demon.co.uk/Index.html
• Shirley swimming Pool -within easy walking or bike from most student housing- lane swimming at least three times a day, morning, lunchtime and evening. No leaping screaming kids!£1.80 a swim for students or a six month card for unlimited sessions for £70.00. Old, traditional four lane 25metre pool. Bit scruffy around the edges but it's the only one in town. 01703 781901
• Southampton is under going a bit of a transformation right now. Half the town is a building site. Leave it until the year 2000 to visit as the work should be done by then and we'll have a lovely new shopping centre.
• My brother and I went to school in the village in 1940-42. Long time eh?! Anyway, I went to the British Legion building made of corragated iron (when it rained it rattled) and my younger brother went just a little way down the road at the village school. We lived at Upcott Farm with Mr. and Mrs Witheridge and their son Charley. Every day we walked to school, summer and winter. Sometimes, we would catch a bus ride with the pupils of that rather high class school outside of the village at the insistence of the shrill voiced Mrs. Witheridge, we found it embarrassing at that early age.
  My brother and I were evacuees which I forgot to mention and were always considered to be those contemptable 'townees'. The other son of our empressed hosts was a red haired chap called John Ridd. He had a wife called 'Nurse' since she had apparently been one in the past. I remember that she had no qualms about squashing little mice between her thumb and forefinger. Quite a gal that one. One of the evacuees stayed in the village or nearby after the war. His name was Marcus (can't remember his surname).

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