If we're allowed to vote, I would say the most interesting of all these fascinating facts we never knew and hope to forget forever in precisely one and a half seconds is a toss up between Thai Malay and his anagram of Mutants Pooh (although I can't be bothered to check all the letters and see if he's right) and Amos on the wing's rather splendid quote from Jimmy Nail.
The booby prize (in more ways than one) goes to Red Army and his stripper. But he doesn't care because he's had more fun in Southampton than the rest of you put together.
[cite]Posted By: Ketman[/cite]Their idiot fans decided to start a Fight in the Liberal Club last season which has resulted in them being banned from said pub this year !
Only because you tried scrapping with them last year! Blame youself Ketmado
The first inhabitants of Southampton were poor from London, transported in barges down the Thames and around the coast. They had to make their own homes from wood cut down from the New Forest and thus had to live on the boats in a river estuary. Among various infestations aboard were fleas, hence the river was named the Itchin', later morphed to the Itchen.
Residents of Southampton spend more per head on toilet cleaners than any other city in the UK. This is thought to the heavy lime content in the water cause by tidal drift from the Solent.
1. The Pilgrim Fathers chose Southampton as their point of departure from England
and both Mayflower and Speedwell were here in August 1620. Plymouth, in
Devon, only became a departure point when the two ships put in there following
the Speedwell springing a leak.
2. In the Napoleonic Wars, French prisoners, held in the building that is now the
Maritime Museum, carved their names there and these carvings can still be seen.
3. Southampton has the oldest Bowling Green in the world dating from before 1299
and it is still in use. Every August a unique competition takes place there for the
Knighthood of the Old Green, the winner being entitled to be called ‘Sir’ within the
club.
4. Southampton’s Cenotaph is the ‘model’ for the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London.
Sir Edwin Lutyens took his design for Southampton, simplified it and it became
accepted as the design for London.
5. The Ordnance Survey moved to Southampton from London in 1841 following a
fire at the Tower of London where they had been based. They have been in
Southampton ever since and in 1846 a detailed colour map of the town was
produced by the OS, a unique and fascinating reference source for local
historians.
6. Southampton was the first local authority in the country to call its offices and town
hall a Civic Centre.
7. The long railway tunnel into Southampton Central, from the east, partly follows
the line of an intended tunnel for a canal that was never completed.
8. St Michael’s Church has the oldest brass lectern in the country dating from
around 1350 and which is in the form of an eagle. It was originally the lectern in
use at Holy Rood Church and was rescued in 1940 when that church was largely
destroyed in the Blitz.
9. In 1554 Philip of Spain arrived in Southampton, stayed 3 days, heard Mass at
Holy Rood Church then left in heavy rain with 3000 men on his way to marry
Queen Mary at Winchester Cathedral on 25 July.
10. The cockerel on top of St Michael’s Church is hollow and, when work is done to
the spire of the church, a note is put inside the weathervane.
11. On 1st May each year, May Day is welcomed in by the choir of King Edward VI
School singing from the top of the Bargate.
12. The area called The Marlands, on part of which stands Southampton’s Civic
Centre, is a corruption of Magdalene Fields, once the site of a leper hospital
dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.
13. Southampton has a Court Leet that still meets once a year and the Mound, where
the Court Leet was held in medieval times, survives on the northern part of
Southampton Common. On the day of Court Leet the Sheriff of Southampton
takes part in the ceremony of ‘Beating The Bounds’.
14. Southampton’s Victorian Cemetery on the south west side of Southampton
Common is the second oldest such cemetery in the country owned by a Municipal
Authority and retains its original buildings from 1846.
15. In 1946, Southampton was the departure point for six voyages of the liner Queen
Mary taking 9000 GI Brides and their 4000 children to New York.
16. Southampton had one of the earliest municipal water supplies in the country. In
1420, the town took over a fresh water supply, the pipes for which were originally
laid down by Franciscan Friars in 1304. One of the Friars’ stone Conduit Houses
can still be seen opposite the main entrance to the Mayflower Theatre,
17. Henri Portal, a Huguenot refugee, escaped to Southampton from France and in
1724, in Hampshire, founded Portals, the company that was granted leave to
produce paper for Bank of England notes.
18. The Mayor of Southampton is also Admiral of the Port and, in procession, the
Silver Oar of Admiralty is carried with other Civic Regalia.
19. In the 15th Century, the Water Gate Tower, at the Town Quay end of the High
Street, was leased, at times, at an annual rent of one red rose but the lessee was
responsible for repair and maintenance of the tower in time of war.
20. The hymn writer, Isaac Watts, was born in Southampton and educated here at
King Edward VI Grammar School then in Winkle Street in the Old Town. His
statue is in Watts Park, facing the Civic Centre and, at 8am, 12noon, 4pm and
8pm after the hour has struck from the Civic Centre Clock Tower, there can be
heard the opening bars of Watts’ hymn ‘O God Our Help In Ages Past’.
21. The writer Jane Austen and members of her family lived in Southampton between
1806 and 1809. A new Jane Austen Trail is linked to a series of plaques in the
Old Town tracing her associations with Southampton.
Universally respected Saint's manager Alan Partridge once managed the biggest club in the world, the mighty academics of the beautiful game- Yer actual West Ham United FC (Although it is rarely mentioned).
In the early part of the nineteenth century, criminals from London and other cities in England faced the prospect of penal servitude, by being sentenced to transportation to Australia. However, between 1838 and 1848, Australia was offered the opportunity to select from the growing list of transported criminals. Thus, in that period, Sir Reynold Henry was tasked to approve or reject potential transportees. The "ugliest, stupidest and least-able to think" were rejected from transportation and alloweed to re-settle in Southampton, England.
Though a few clever ones escaped and their descendants appeared on University Challenge last Monday against Imperial College, London. With not long to go Imperial were over 100 points ahead but Southampton University pegged them back with a late surge and were only 40 behind when the whistle, sorry, gong sounded. Be warned!
When the Titanic left Southampton for Belfast, all the fireman stayed in the great city, no doubt beguiled by the formidable ladies of the night. Thus the sinking of the Titanic was down to the Southampton fireman who should have been on board to help save the vessel. Harrassed by the national press, the fireman went into hiding and hid in a convent and had to pretend to be nuns for the rest of their lives. These 'nuns' occasionally played football in a pokey little place called the Dell and that is the origen of this once great football club.
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M3/M27 road junction.
The booby prize (in more ways than one) goes to Red Army and his stripper. But he doesn't care because he's had more fun in Southampton than the rest of you put together.
Only because you tried scrapping with them last year! Blame youself Ketmado
Sadly Craig can't be at the Valley tomorrow, as it clashes with his comeback gig at a 7-year old's birthday party.
Also Charlton is Latin for 'those that used to have a twat of a manager'.
and both Mayflower and Speedwell were here in August 1620. Plymouth, in
Devon, only became a departure point when the two ships put in there following
the Speedwell springing a leak.
2. In the Napoleonic Wars, French prisoners, held in the building that is now the
Maritime Museum, carved their names there and these carvings can still be seen.
3. Southampton has the oldest Bowling Green in the world dating from before 1299
and it is still in use. Every August a unique competition takes place there for the
Knighthood of the Old Green, the winner being entitled to be called ‘Sir’ within the
club.
4. Southampton’s Cenotaph is the ‘model’ for the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London.
Sir Edwin Lutyens took his design for Southampton, simplified it and it became
accepted as the design for London.
5. The Ordnance Survey moved to Southampton from London in 1841 following a
fire at the Tower of London where they had been based. They have been in
Southampton ever since and in 1846 a detailed colour map of the town was
produced by the OS, a unique and fascinating reference source for local
historians.
6. Southampton was the first local authority in the country to call its offices and town
hall a Civic Centre.
7. The long railway tunnel into Southampton Central, from the east, partly follows
the line of an intended tunnel for a canal that was never completed.
8. St Michael’s Church has the oldest brass lectern in the country dating from
around 1350 and which is in the form of an eagle. It was originally the lectern in
use at Holy Rood Church and was rescued in 1940 when that church was largely
destroyed in the Blitz.
9. In 1554 Philip of Spain arrived in Southampton, stayed 3 days, heard Mass at
Holy Rood Church then left in heavy rain with 3000 men on his way to marry
Queen Mary at Winchester Cathedral on 25 July.
10. The cockerel on top of St Michael’s Church is hollow and, when work is done to
the spire of the church, a note is put inside the weathervane.
11. On 1st May each year, May Day is welcomed in by the choir of King Edward VI
School singing from the top of the Bargate.
12. The area called The Marlands, on part of which stands Southampton’s Civic
Centre, is a corruption of Magdalene Fields, once the site of a leper hospital
dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.
13. Southampton has a Court Leet that still meets once a year and the Mound, where
the Court Leet was held in medieval times, survives on the northern part of
Southampton Common. On the day of Court Leet the Sheriff of Southampton
takes part in the ceremony of ‘Beating The Bounds’.
14. Southampton’s Victorian Cemetery on the south west side of Southampton
Common is the second oldest such cemetery in the country owned by a Municipal
Authority and retains its original buildings from 1846.
15. In 1946, Southampton was the departure point for six voyages of the liner Queen
Mary taking 9000 GI Brides and their 4000 children to New York.
16. Southampton had one of the earliest municipal water supplies in the country. In
1420, the town took over a fresh water supply, the pipes for which were originally
laid down by Franciscan Friars in 1304. One of the Friars’ stone Conduit Houses
can still be seen opposite the main entrance to the Mayflower Theatre,
17. Henri Portal, a Huguenot refugee, escaped to Southampton from France and in
1724, in Hampshire, founded Portals, the company that was granted leave to
produce paper for Bank of England notes.
18. The Mayor of Southampton is also Admiral of the Port and, in procession, the
Silver Oar of Admiralty is carried with other Civic Regalia.
19. In the 15th Century, the Water Gate Tower, at the Town Quay end of the High
Street, was leased, at times, at an annual rent of one red rose but the lessee was
responsible for repair and maintenance of the tower in time of war.
20. The hymn writer, Isaac Watts, was born in Southampton and educated here at
King Edward VI Grammar School then in Winkle Street in the Old Town. His
statue is in Watts Park, facing the Civic Centre and, at 8am, 12noon, 4pm and
8pm after the hour has struck from the Civic Centre Clock Tower, there can be
heard the opening bars of Watts’ hymn ‘O God Our Help In Ages Past’.
21. The writer Jane Austen and members of her family lived in Southampton between
1806 and 1809. A new Jane Austen Trail is linked to a series of plaques in the
Old Town tracing her associations with Southampton.