Redondo Saint Posted 5 November, 2009 Share Posted 5 November, 2009 It wasn't that long ago when West End, Bursledon and other 'villages' had their own telephone STD number.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weston Saint Posted 5 November, 2009 Share Posted 5 November, 2009 Just found out why Pound Tree Road was so named In 1770 an act of Parliament set up a body of men called the Improvement Commissioners with powers to pave and clean the main streets of Southampton They also towed away carts blocking the streets of Southampton. They were chained to a tree known as the pound tree and the owner had to pay a fine to get them back. Bloody clampers even in those days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 5 November, 2009 Share Posted 5 November, 2009 I am glad you never quoted the full name of the P word TBH it's even hard to type it out like that because you actually have to think of the name to prevent yourself from typing it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redondo Saint Posted 5 November, 2009 Share Posted 5 November, 2009 I wonder if many realise that Bitterne, Sholing, Woolston, Weston, Peartree, Bassett and Swaythling only became part of Southampton in 1920, Millbrook, Redbridge, Harefield and part of Thornhill in 1954. It was only after 1929 that a toll was no longer charged to travel across Northam bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 5 November, 2009 Share Posted 5 November, 2009 I remember a TV series called (I think) "Target" starring Patrick Mower which was set in and around Southampton. I vaguely remember a car chase around The Bargate. Anyone remember this or is it just me!! No, you're correct and one episode was shot by the Dell car park and old Saints shop. I think it may have been a BBC series but only lasted for 1 or 2 seasons. Felt quite sad and nostalgic driving over Northam Bridge yesterday, seeing the old Southern/TVS/Meridian studios completely flattened. Funnily enough made me nostalgic over the big banana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miserableoldgit Posted 5 November, 2009 Share Posted 5 November, 2009 Braishfield, a hot summer's day and a Ploughman's with HSB at the Newport. luuuuuvley! Going to The Newport is like stepping back in time. Like something from an old Ealing movie. Lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy Nutkins Posted 6 November, 2009 Share Posted 6 November, 2009 I wonder if many realise that Bitterne, Sholing, Woolston, Weston, Peartree, Bassett and Swaythling only became part of Southampton in 1920, Millbrook, Redbridge, Harefield and part of Thornhill in 1954. Presumably they were under Hampshire County Council until then? Or maybe Weston was under P*"ts#~u!h? I am glad you never quoted the full name of the P word Blimey Ron does that mean we will eventually be forced back to our spiritual home.I'm not fond of caravans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecuk268 Posted 6 November, 2009 Share Posted 6 November, 2009 Going to The Newport is like stepping back in time. Like something from an old Ealing movie. Lovely. Used to go there in my mis-spent youth. There used to be an old dear bashing out songs on the piano on Saturday nights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miserableoldgit Posted 6 November, 2009 Share Posted 6 November, 2009 Used to go there in my mis-spent youth. There used to be an old dear bashing out songs on the piano on Saturday nights. She is still there although her husband died a year or two back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 6 November, 2009 Share Posted 6 November, 2009 She is still there although her husband died a year or two back. Many years ago the pub was run by twin sisters with their respectives other halves. I think they were identical twins. Anyone with more info? They used old coach seats in one bar and, at Christmas time, would string wire across the room, well above head height, and suspend tree branches entwined with Christmas lights on them above the wire. I always wondered how the place never went up in smoke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocco boxo Posted 6 November, 2009 Share Posted 6 November, 2009 Janet was the name of one. Loved once being in there and the magazine under one of the lounge bar tables was over ten years old...Country Life magazine I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint boggy Posted 6 February, 2010 Share Posted 6 February, 2010 Do you mean the house on Moorhill rd near Telegraph rd West End? I think it's still there... Redondo Saint - I remember the one on Moorhill Road too near Telegraph Road but that one was up a tree. i only saw the Moorhill Road one for the first time about 10 years ago, but i'm sure i would've loved that treehouse too had i seen it when i was a kid. It is still there btw! drove past there today and the house is being knocked down!! mind you, i bet that land is worth a pretty penny,eh!:smt119 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 6 February, 2010 Share Posted 6 February, 2010 I love these old nostalgia threads... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopGun Posted 6 February, 2010 Share Posted 6 February, 2010 I think Glen Eyre used to get it from all sides as you were in the middle. Getting off with Glen Eyre girls was seen as a victory for our lads (given we didn't have any of our own!) and used to rile the Glen Eyre lads... As a Hampton Park lad we viewed St Georges an catholic church going non-entities... but I accept that Glen Eyre fell between the two. A few frosty days on Burgess Road were had. There was one lad in my year who ended up at HP having been expelled from both St Georges and Glen Eyre. He was in my form at HP so I made a note to self to stay close! We got on fine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dark Sotonic Mills Posted 6 February, 2010 Share Posted 6 February, 2010 I love these old nostalgia threads... They're not as good as they used to be though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopGun Posted 6 February, 2010 Share Posted 6 February, 2010 They're not as good as they used to be though... Your submarine is getting rusty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopGun Posted 6 February, 2010 Share Posted 6 February, 2010 I love these old nostalgia threads... It beats the family bible doesn't it. SWF is Sotonian Peoples History. Needs to be recorded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 6 February, 2010 Share Posted 6 February, 2010 It beats the family bible doesn't it. SWF is Sotonian Peoples History. Needs to be recorded. You can say that again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 7 February, 2010 Share Posted 7 February, 2010 The laughing paki. I know that is a racist term but honestly, that is what he was known as by everyone who saw him years ago Urban legend... Is he still about? He was when I left Southampton in 2006! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 7 February, 2010 Share Posted 7 February, 2010 There used to be a cafe on Portswood Road, just up from the Talking Heads I think. Used to go there with my dad on Saturdays and get a Coke or 7-UP, in the classic bottles, and then up to the shops for a DC comic or a Commando book. It is still there, and back in 1994 I lived just over the road from it!! Looks rubbish but holds a lot of memories, and I am suprised it is still going!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 7 February, 2010 Share Posted 7 February, 2010 Did they reorganise the postcodes in Southampton at some point, or have they always started in double figures? Along with the area dialing code. Used to start with 0703? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 7 February, 2010 Share Posted 7 February, 2010 Along with the area dialing code. Used to start with 0703? then 01703? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 7 February, 2010 Share Posted 7 February, 2010 It is still there, and back in 1994 I lived just over the road from it!! Looks rubbish but holds a lot of memories, and I am suprised it is still going!! Jackpot Cafe. Was walking past just two weeks ago on our way to Portswood, and nostalgia kicked in. Mrs had a bacon sarnie and as I couldn;t choose between the options I plumped for THe Herman! A veritable feast that just had to be tackled for old times sake. Unfortunately it was an over-cooked greasy mess, it really was disgusting. One of those meals that you know it really is not worth sending back. "Foul" would be an understatement. When it was brought out the chef (haha) called over to us and just nodded at the plates on he counter. "Yes please mate" I said, "Here you are then" he said walking back to his wall of microwavs. I absolutely love fry ups, but due to having to keep an eye on my cholesterol I only have them as a rare treat. I ate almost every bite as I knew that another will not pass my lips for a good few months. One thing is for sure though, it won't be another 'Herman'. They should re-name it a 'germ un' imho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 7 February, 2010 Share Posted 7 February, 2010 Lived in Swaythling for a while. Went there often. I've seen Eric Martin & Jim Steele in there. For my sins I grew up on the Flower Estate, and did not turn out to bad. Used to play for the black cat, which is now a Mc Donalds I think. Remember walking up the M27 the week before it was opened! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 7 February, 2010 Share Posted 7 February, 2010 Jackpot Cafe. Was walking past just two weeks ago on our way to Portswood, and nostalgia kicked in. Mrs had a bacon sarnie and as I couldn;t choose between the options I plumped for THe Herman! A veritable feast that just had to be tackled for old times sake. Unfortunately it was an over-cooked greasy mess, it really was disgusting. One of those meals that you know it really is not worth sending back. "Foul" would be an understatement. When it was brought out the chef (haha) called over to us and just nodded at the plates on he counter. "Yes please mate" I said, "Here you are then" he said walking back to his wall of microwavs. I absolutely love fry ups, but due to having to keep an eye on my cholesterol I only have them as a rare treat. I ate almost every bite as I knew that another will not pass my lips for a good few months. One thing is for sure though, it won't be another 'Herman'. They should re-name it a 'germ un' imho. That is it Jackpot Cafe, which it is has not look about it that makes you think you have hit the jackpot. Which again the question comes up, how has it stayed open so long where others have fallen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFLUENCED.COM Posted 7 February, 2010 Share Posted 7 February, 2010 That is it Jackpot Cafe, which it is has not look about it that makes you think you have hit the jackpot. Which again the question comes up, how has it stayed open so long where others have fallen? Has had a couple of different owners, used to meet their on a Sunday morning for all the talk of the night before then progressed to Solo's opposite town quay as they came out with an equally gut busting dish, all in the days before we could pronounce cholesterol let alone spell it. Sundays were: 10am breakfast, 12-3 pub...look for a lock in or balloon/steam or any other festival that has a beer tent between 3 & 5, Rugby club at 5-7ish then back to pub then onto social club till closing then a kebab/curry then bed not much before midnight, up at 5 for work. Now, can't do the breakfast, can't do the drinking, can't do the curry and need to be in bed at least 7 hours before due to get up, getting older stinks !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 7 February, 2010 Share Posted 7 February, 2010 how has it stayed open so long where others have fallen? They have a side room that is a seedy looking amusement arcade, always busy in that bit for some strange reason. Maybe that's where the money is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 7 February, 2010 Share Posted 7 February, 2010 You can say that again. It beats the family bible doesn't it. SWF is Sotonian Peoples History. Needs to be recorded. HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
explorer saint Posted 7 February, 2010 Share Posted 7 February, 2010 Seeing Queen at the Gaumont about 1977, and after a Saints game seeing a mob of Bay City Roller fans screaming outside one of the hotels on the walk back into town! Queen was a great memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ottery st mary Posted 7 February, 2010 Share Posted 7 February, 2010 I know at least two of those protesters. Swampys grandparents...... Great thread...So many great memories..Thank you all....some from me on there way.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonjoe Posted 7 February, 2010 Share Posted 7 February, 2010 i know the jackpot cafe owners. i'll pass on the praise if you like ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carljack Posted 7 February, 2010 Share Posted 7 February, 2010 He was when I left Southampton in 2006! Came home to Southampton for Xmas/ New Year ended up down in some Student Bar that had once been a Bank! got rat arsed,next day told my Mum and Brothers that I thought I had encountered the "Laughing Paki" outside Holy Rood, they reckoned I had been on the Gin.I am certain it was him after looking at his vid on youtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carljack Posted 7 February, 2010 Share Posted 7 February, 2010 Who remembers when Pompei were a Premiership Club? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambjo1976 Posted 8 February, 2010 Share Posted 8 February, 2010 I think the helicopter was where radio solent is now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambjo1976 Posted 8 February, 2010 Share Posted 8 February, 2010 Seen a lot of pubs i used to drink in on here, but nobody has mentioned Gattis or the Beer Kellar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunty Posted 9 February, 2010 Share Posted 9 February, 2010 Also, on a TV theme - there just MUST be a poster or two who appeared on 'Runaround' or 'The Saturday Banana'?? Come on admit it? I was on Saturday Banana and won on the runaround game(was on SB before it got its own series)! Bill Oddie and a young Susan Tulley presented the show, Robin Gibb was the guest on the show that day. Was gutted the prize wasn't a "chopper" bike that week, as it usually was, but I got a new TV games consol, which I'd never seen before! Became popular around the Warren for a while then! My 2 brothers(they are a few years older than me) would get home from the pub then play pong all night on there, when I got up I wasn't allowed to use it in case it left lines on the tv! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunty Posted 9 February, 2010 Share Posted 9 February, 2010 Nearly the only film left of Saturday Banana! Forgot Metal Mickey started on there too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easty Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 Do you mean the house on Moorhill rd near Telegraph rd West End? I think it's still there... Being a Harefield boy myself. Yes, that house is still there sits on West End road at the corner of Chalk hill, The Mayoress of Southampton used to live there in the 70's think her name was Mary Ward, though not sure. Remember Broomfield and Gatehouse cycle shop in commercial road, used to breed and sell budgies in their garden. Broomfields daugher Gillian was my first ever g/f. Also the Sir John Barleycorn best pint of Boiler in town Brickwoods forest brown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_hill Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 Can anyone confirm the current status of takeaways in the Bitterne Park Triangle? There used to be one good chippy run by a Greek (I think) family. Really nice people. The 'laughing Paki' is the one who started a fight with me when I declined to put some money in his hat, I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets B Avenue Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 "Andy" died a couple of years ago, but his family are still running the shop. My local contacts prefer the rival chippy over the road, next to Cobden Bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedAndWhite91 Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 X-Ray Specs on a kids programme - fantastic! I loved that album (Germ Free Adolesence), esp "Identity", what a classic. This leads me on to another topic which might fit this thread - music of the day. Now I know that every generation thinks their era is the best, but really growing up with Punk, New Wave, Electro, two tone, and some top soul music too was just incredible. Give me that soundtrack to my youth any day vs. the safe sanitised and, let's face it, BORING, "R'n'B" that kids grow up with these days... ...discuss! Erm, no. I think it's safe to say the music of your generation is 1000000000000000000000000000000x100x better than the music of my generation!! Oh if I could go back in time it would definitely be back to the late Seventies/Early Eighties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macey_J2 Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 Has anyone got a photo of the "le god for england" graffitti in ocean village from the mid 90's? Im trying to find one, but am currently failing. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsterdam Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 Erm, no. I think it's safe to say the music of your generation is 1000000000000000000000000000000x100x better than the music of my generation!! Oh if I could go back in time it would definitely be back to the late Seventies/Early Eighties. Trust me - you don't! Most of it was complete tosh!! I remember seeing the JoBoxers (sp?) at Southampton Uni around then and thinking they were one of the better bands... Over the years your mind blanks out the rubbish and you think every song was a classic (you'll do the same in 20 years time!). For example I have "Chart Hits 81" in front of me (my wife's, I hasten to add) and of the musical delights on offer as the "big" hits of the year are: Pretend - Alvin Stardust You'll Never Know - Hi-Gloss Prisoner - Sheila B. Devotion Birdie Song - The Tweets Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart) - Ottowan In And Out Of Love - Imagination Heart And Soul - Exile Piece Of The Action - Bucks Fizz Lock Up Your Daughters - Slade Can Can - Bad Manners Hooked On Classics - The RPO The s$@t we had to tolerate back in the day!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedAndWhite91 Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 Trust me - you don't! Most of it was complete tosh!! I remember seeing the JoBoxers (sp?) at Southampton Uni around then and thinking they were one of the better bands... Over the years your mind blanks out the rubbish and you think every song was a classic (you'll do the same in 20 years time!). For example I have "Chart Hits 81" in front of me (my wife's, I hasten to add) and of the musical delights on offer as the "big" hits of the year are: Pretend - Alvin Stardust You'll Never Know - Hi-Gloss Prisoner - Sheila B. Devotion Birdie Song - The Tweets Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart) - Ottowan In And Out Of Love - Imagination Heart And Soul - Exile Piece Of The Action - Bucks Fizz Lock Up Your Daughters - Slade Can Can - Bad Manners Hooked On Classics - The RPO The s$@t we had to tolerate back in the day!! Ah yes I know there was a lot of tosh back then, but you also had punk, ska, mod revival, oi!, two tone, new wave, and all that great stuff that I listen to now!! Would be nice to actually experience it first hand, instead of listening to 30 years on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 Hampton Park were you? I was Glen Eyre....:smt075 In addition I remember It's A Knockout came to the Sports Centre a couple of times and set up shop on the athletics field. There used to be the Atherley Cinema in Shirley (now a bingo hall). And don't forget the Lord Louis at the old Green Bus Depot. Manhattans Night Club in St Mary's Street. Mike's Burger Van. I'll have to come back to this.... I was also at Glen Eyre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Give it to Ron Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 The 'laughing Paki' is the one who started a fight with me when I declined to put some money in his hat, I believe. I saw him on Tuesday night before the match outside St Marys Sports Hall...although he looked really miserable.....must be an age thing. Grumpy Old Paki doesn't have the same ring to it. Before MLG gets up on his soapbox this name was a term of endearment to the guy who has been know that for over 30 years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimond Geezer Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 Can anyone confirm the current status of takeaways in the Bitterne Park Triangle? There used to be one good chippy run by a Greek (I think) family. Really nice people. The 'laughing Paki' is the one who started a fight with me when I declined to put some money in his hat, I believe. As someone else has mentioned Andy has died, but the family still run it. There is also Charlies chippy(best chippy in so'ton) , a sandwhich bar, 1 indian takeaway, 1 indian Restaurant, 2 chinese takeaways (including the Golden River which has been there for at least 30 years), 1 chinese resturant, a greasy spoon, coffee shop and one takaway pizza place. I don't think I've missed any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Gotsmanov Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 The old dear still bashes out songs on the piano although she now gets some support from somebody who looks like he sang with the Wurzels. Her old man had the pub before her and she can remember the yanks drinking in there and giving out sweets. It is now a Fullers pub. The ploughmans remains on the menu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsterdam Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 The old dear still bashes out songs on the piano although she now gets some support from somebody who looks like he sang with the Wurzels. Her old man had the pub before her and she can remember the yanks drinking in there and giving out sweets. It is now a Fullers pub. The ploughmans remains on the menu "'e be up yon wurzel tree an' oi be aarfter 'e. 'e sees oi, an' oi sees 'e buggered if oi don't 'av 'e Wi' a great big stick oi'll knock 'im down, Blackbird, oi'll 'ave 'ee Dalla la la la la, Dalla la la la la - 'ow's yer faather, all roight?" The Music Man Cambourne Hill She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain Washed down with 4 pints of GBH, and rounds of incredible ham/cheese sandwiches (with pickled onions)!! I've travelled the world, but doubt if I've spent better evenings anywhere - New York, Sydney, Bangkok, Amsterdam, Braishfield! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 11 February, 2010 Share Posted 11 February, 2010 Anyone who attended King Edwards in the late 70's would have got excited had they been with me last week in Posrtswood. In on eof the charity shops, I was sifting through a box of albums (vinyl) and came across a mint choral recording with a host of their little angels on the cover. I wanted to but it and offer it on here but mrs h dragged me away. It's probably still there if any one on here thinks they might feature, the shop opposite the spanish food resaurant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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