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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by TheSecondStain, Jul 15, 2014.

  1. Schrodinger's Cat

    Schrodinger's Cat Well-Known Member

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    I love Ebbor Gorge, you can have the place almost to yourself if you are lucky. I miss Somerset and would move back in a heartbeat if the current Mrs RJ wasn't firmly rooted in Wiltshire.
     
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  2. ChilcoSaint

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    It’s my wife’s birthday today, and it’s become a tradition to have lunch in the Hunter’s Lodge at Priddy (cauli cheese and a pint of Totty Pot), followed by a walk around Ebbor Gorge. We were blessed with the weather today!
     
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  3. San Tejón

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    Not sure how accurate this is but it claims to be a before and after.

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  4. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Yeah, that's not bad. My old dad learned to swim by being thrown into the water near that slip at high tide. The sign that says Turkish Baths, I think eventually became part of the Lido, which I went to several times, though my preference was for the indoor baths further up the road [which is still there in a different guise].
    That waters edge was pushed back by land reclamation, and the Western Docks were formed. There is a great aerial photo of that in the archives somewhere. I'll try to find it.
     
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  5. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Well, that was immediately fruitful:

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    Notice the straight formation of Western Docks start to push upwards, to eventually enclose that once delightful bay.
     
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  6. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    And here is when they finally enclosed the bay:

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    So, apart from Western Shore, Woolston, Southampton lost its beach.
     
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  7. TheSecondStain

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    Very quickly, it was pressed into service:

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    Wow. I never knew Southampton had a bay. I’ll have to show my old man to see if he knew.
     
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  10. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    You seriously never knew about the land reclamation of the bay, FLT? I thought it was common knowledge.

    Incidentally, even my Dutch buddy was slightly impressed about it. :D
     
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  11. thereisonlyoneno7

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    Never knew, but I’m a North Hampshire bumpkin, not a Southampton local.
     
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  13. Schrodinger's Cat

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    I knew...your Dad told me. It's funny sometimes that we can go our whole lives thinking something is true when the reality is different. My Dad spent most of his life thinking he was a Devon boy, then found out in his 70s that the family were actually Cornish
     
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  14. Schrodinger's Cat

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  15. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Ah, OK. 'Ampshire 'Og, but not a Moosh. :D

    And Rorschach has taken your comment out of context. He did a "reading" Rorschach Test on it. <whistle>
     
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    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Well, I guess when Kryten asks for help, I accept the sharing challenge. I'd have only moved faster for Ace:

     
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  17. Schrodinger's Cat

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    What are you babbling about TSS? All I said was that I knew Fats wasn't from Southampton, because his Dad told me a few years ago when I met him in a pub.
     
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  18. TheSecondStain

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    Yes, but he wasn't going on about that. He knew that he wasn't a local. What he didn't know was that land had been reclaimed at Soton Docks.
     
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  19. Schrodinger's Cat

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    If I actually took notice of what people were saying, I'd never get anything done TSS. :emoticon-0102-bigsm
     
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    Love these old photos ! - anyone got a pic of the old Antelope Ground where Saints used to play ? - it was south-a-bit from Onslow Road.
     
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