nited Kingdom (City of Southampton)

[Cruzer Two]

 

[tartanexile81]

Not one of my favourite places in the UK and the only thing I like about it is the fact it's a cruise port  but you made it look good!!!

Edited October 20, 2018 by tartanexile81

[John Bull]

15 hours ago, tartanexile81 said:

Not one of my favourite places in the UK and the only thing I like about it is the fact it's a cruise port  but you made it look good!!!

 

Agreed Southampton's not a picture-postcard city. but it has its gems - just a few of which were captured by the OP, all of them in easy walking distance of the port.

As per that vid. the city was heavily blitzed during WW2 (targets included the docks & the Supermarine Spitfire factory), and much of the rebuilding in the walled part of the city was hasty and not well thought-out, so the new sits uncomfortably with the old - as is also obvious from the vid.  Hence you do kinda have to zoom your camera at the individual sights and leave the surroundings to your imagination.

But there's enough of interest in the city to keep the visitor amused for a day or two, and the shopping is excellent.

And being a rail hub, its excellent direct train connections make it a good base for a stack of day-trips to places like the New Forest, to Weymouth, to Salisbury & Bath, to Winchester, to Chichester & Arundel & Brighton, and to Portsmouth & Southsea.

So don't be too hard on my home city

 

BTW the "Wool House" (the 13thC stone-built store in the vid) is no longer the home of the maritime museum - the museum moved to big new purpose-built premises adjacent the Civic Centre & the Wool House is now an attractive pub & micro-brewery.    

 

JB  

[tartanexile81]

I agree it's a better base than a place to visit in its own right .   

[Cruzer Two]

1 hour ago, John Bull said:

 

Agreed Southampton's not a picture-postcard city. but it has its gems - just a few of which were captured by the OP, all of them in easy walking distance of the port.

As per that vid. the city was heavily blitzed during WW2 (targets included the docks & the Supermarine Spitfire factory), and much of the rebuilding in the walled part of the city was hasty and not well thought-out, so the new sits uncomfortably with the old - as is also obvious from the vid.  Hence you do kinda have to zoom your camera at the individual sights and leave the surroundings to your imagination.

But there's enough of interest in the city to keep the visitor amused for a day or two, and the shopping is excellent.

And being a rail hub, its excellent direct train connections make it a good base for a stack of day-trips to places like the New Forest, to Weymouth, to Salisbury & Bath, to Winchester, to Chichester & Arundel & Brighton, and to Portsmouth & Southsea.

So don't be too hard on my home city

 

BTW the "Wool House" (the 13thC stone-built store in the vid) is no longer the home of the maritime museum - the museum moved to big new purpose-built premises adjacent the Civic Centre & the Wool House is now an attractive pub & micro-brewery.    

 

JB  

I quite agree! We've been to London many times, so on our last cruise we decided to spend the night in Southampton instead.  It was fun walking around and exploring some of the sites of the city. And we had a great meal at one of the local pubs.  We would do it again! :)

[karinad]

We just stayed at The Pig In The Wall in mid-Sept. for a night. We enjoyed walking around the city at night and exploring. The Pig was the perfect location! Thanks for the video! It was nice seeing it again!