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I’m Russell and I’m currently taking a break from posting content. I’ll be back soon.
Nov 23, 2021 • 41 tweets • 17 min read
THREAD: THE SOUTHAMPTON BLITZ.

#OnThisDay eighty-one years ago - 23 November 1940 - the Luftwaffe targeted Southampton and the town suffered its most destructive raid of the Blitz so far.

According to American newspapers, the Nazis claimed Southampton was left a smoking ruin. Image Southampton had already suffered many tragedies.

The Luftwaffe had marked out their main targets on an aerial photograph. These included the gas works at Northam and the Supermarine factory at Woolston. Over one hundred people died in raids on these targets in September 1940. Image
Nov 23, 2020 • 36 tweets • 16 min read
THREAD - THE SOUTHAMPTON BLITZ:

#OnThisDay eighty years ago - 23 November 1940 - the Luftwaffe targeted Southampton and the town suffered its most destructive raid of the Blitz so far.

It was front page news in America as the Nazis claimed Southampton was left a smoking ruin... Image Southampton had already suffered many tragedies.

The Luftwaffe had marked out their main targets on an aerial photograph. These included the gas works at Northam and the Supermarine factory at Woolston. Over one hundred people died in raids on these targets in September 1940. Image
Mar 15, 2020 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
TOM FREEMANTLE PERRY, A THREAD:

A Southampton boy who fought with the Anzacs.

This began as a single tweet, but as I researched it I quickly realised it would have to be a thread!

Tom had an interesting life. Thanks for reading. Tom Freemantle Perry was born in Shirley, Southampton in 1897.

His parents were Thomas Perry and Rose Ellen Freemantle, who married in 1894.

They ran the Kings Arms on Church Street in Shirley.

Tom grew up in this pub, before going off to work as a farm labourer.
Feb 9, 2020 • 29 tweets • 13 min read
SOUTH WESTERN HOUSE, A THREAD:

I am immensely grateful to @Tkiddle for showing us around South Western House recently.

The iconic building is now apartments. For many years it was Southampton’s grandest hotel, which played host to royalty, VIPs, and celebrities. The hotel was originally built in the 1860s by the Southampton Imperial Hotel Company, who leased land from the London & South Western Railway. Next to the hotel was the railway station, which had linked Southampton and London since 1840. Back then the journey took three hours.