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           <title>The Falaise was the 'biggest, most luxurious and newest' ship for Southern Railway</title>
           
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  THE old Southampton cross- Channel ferry, Falaise, was able to boast of a long and honourable career stretching back more than a quarter of a century when she was finally scrapped in 1974.
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           <title>Night the lights went out on spectacular cathedral concert</title>
           
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  IT was all going so well as more than 300 musicians and singers enthralled the packed audience at Winchester Cathedral – then the lights went out!
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           <title>Adventurers were Southampton's answer to Indiana Jones</title>
           
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  They were an unlikely pair to set out from Southampton on such a hazardous enterprise. Keith Hamilton tells the story of these most British of adventurers who travelled by biplane and elephant
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           <title>Southampton Corporation found not guilty of negligence</title>
           
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  SOMEONE rang the bell, the tram shuddered to a halt and a passenger was found lying sprawled on the pavement.
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           <title>Looking back at Southampton's car sales boom of 1963</title>
           
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  Exactly half a century ago to the day Southampton was enjoying something of a boom period in car sales with local showrooms having trouble keeping up with demand.
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           <title>Echo reporter remembers when he met with Ray Harryhausen</title>
           
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  Visual effects genius Ray Harryhausen, who died this week, was one of the greats of Hollywood. Keith Hamilton remembers the stopmotion pioneer – and the surprising contents of his jacket pocket...
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           <title>Southampton was vital in preparing for World War II</title>
           
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  The start of the Second World was still more than two years in the future, but Southampton was set to play a key role in preparing the nation for conflict.
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           <title>World's biggest flying-boat launched in Calshot</title>
           
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  IT was December, 1951 when the Daily Echo scooped every other newspaper by being the first to publish a photograph of the world’s biggest flying-boat.
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           <title>Girl Guides welcome Lady Baden-Powell to Alrresford</title>
           
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  It was October 1932 and more than 100 Girl Guides of all ranks and drawn from across Hampshire cheered the Chief “Guider”, Lady Baden-Powell, who was visiting Alresford.
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           <title>Shoemaker’s love of prison</title>
           
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  FRANK Bryan enjoyed prison so much he kept on committing crimes in order to return there.
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           <title>Rownhams House - a 'little oasis'</title>
           
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  Sally Churchward takes a tour of one of Southampton’s remaining country mansions
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           <title>Southampton's dark and dangerous back street</title>
           
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  THESE days it is a quiet byway, tucked away from the busy streets of 21st century Southampton, but there was a time when Simnel Street was packed with desperate families, and an area where few wandered on their own.
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           <title>Southampton's first ever roundabout</title>
           
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  THE newfangled road system had Southampton drivers going around and around in circles.
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           <title>Living in the pub with no beer</title>
           
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  IN downtown Southampton the paint was peeling and flaking on the old Electric Arms beer-house, the wallpaper was stained by damp and upstairs the plaster had fallen from the walls and ceiling.
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           <title>Simple fruit brings a smile during war</title>
           
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  HAMPSHIRE’S 21st century shoppers find it difficult to appreciate just how hard it was at the time of rationing in the Second World War and during the years which followed the return of peace.
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           <title>Press gangs made people vanish from the streets of Southampton</title>
           
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  EVERY community has its tales about local people who in earlier, less sensitive times, would be referred to as “not all there” and Southampton was no exception.
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           <title>Alfred the Great timeline</title>
           
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  Alfred: timeline
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           <title>The day a meteor lit up the Hampshire sky</title>
           
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  STREAKING across the sky like a ball of pale green fire, a meteor caused quite a stir in Hampshire in the spring of 1891.
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           <title>Downton Abbey: what really happened in Hampshire country houses</title>
           
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  LIFE above and below stairs at Downton Abbey has gripped television audiences in their millions but is the drama a true reflection of the English country house in the 19th and early 20th centuries?
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           <title>Don’t mess with the sergeant major</title>
           
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  IT would have been a most unwise character to cause a disturbance in Southampton’s old Glasgow pub, as the landlord was an ex- Army sergeant major and champion swordsman.
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           <title>Enjoy the trip on the Floating Bridge – but don’t feed the birds</title>
           
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  THEY were loved and loathed in equal measure and were wonderfully quirky and were a unique feature of Southampton life for decades.
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           <title>City landmark racks up 50 years</title>
           
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  EXACTLY half a century ago hundreds of Southampton people reached for the sky and found a new home for themselves in the city.
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           <title>Celebration of new Guildhall</title>
           
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  SOUTHAMPTON’S Guildhall has long been a steadfast city landmark which, when it was built, had an eye to future generations.
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           <title>Fifty years since first visit of the Rolling Stones to Southampton</title>
           
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  IT was 50 years ago that the Rolling Stones, the bad boys of rock, first wowed fans in Southampton.
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           <title>Magical memories of Mansbridge</title>
           
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  FOR many decades the riverside walks in and around Mansbridge have been some of the most popular spots for local Southampton people to enjoy a country stroll, while still being close to the city.
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           <title>History of Midanbury Lodge - The Castle - in Southampton</title>
           
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  AN unknown Southampton writer, reporting in 1878 on the construction of a new road east of the River Itchen, praised the beauty of the nearby countryside, claiming “the views from Midanbury Heights are exceedingly fine’’.
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           <title>Looking to the past for the Bargate's future</title>
           
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  Last week, the Daily Echo revealed a bold vision to reinstate Southampton’s iconic Bargate. As KEITH HAMILTON reports, a new chapter in the colourful history of the city’s most important landmarks could be about to unfold
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           <title>Day fascist Mosley hid in a tram to escape the angry mob</title>
           
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  EXTRAORDINARILY, his appearance in Southampton warranted neither front page consideration nor the presence of a staff photographer.
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           <title>Daily Echo images from the past make unique Christmas gifts</title>
           
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  Buy classic images from the Daily Echo archive
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           <title>Streamline cabbies set a high standard</title>
           
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  THE first meeting was held in a room at the Bank Inn, Everton Street, Southampton, in 1938 – almost threequarters of a century ago.
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           <title>Help find the Steam Queens</title>
           
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  CALLING Southampton’s ‘steam queens’!
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           <title>The battle for Twyford Down - was it worth it?</title>
           
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  Twenty years ago, Chris Gillam was among the environmental campaigners who took part in the protests over the controversial M3 extension. Sally Churchward looks back with him
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           <title>Medieval Southampton's rich links to Venice - through pepper</title>
           
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  THE stunning beauty of Venice with its canals, palaces, and gondolas, may seem far removed from 21st century Southampton but there is a connection, one
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           <title>Suffragettes in the city were determined to get the vote.</title>
           
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  IT sounds bizarre but 100 years ago no Southampton post box, nor the mail inside it, was safe from the activities of a gang of determined arsonists.
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  Southampton ’s modern-day, crowded roads are a far cry from those far off times when most of the passing traffic was either horse and carts or bicycles.
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           <title>The £43 guide for Victorian visitors to Hampshire</title>
           
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  BACK in 1888, for the sum of ten shillings (50p), equivalent to more than £43 today, a handsome book, bound in red leather, could be bought in London by travellers heading for Hampshire and the
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           <title>Mystery of the disappearing machine-gun inventor</title>
           
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  A LINGERING mystery from Victorian Southampton is the strange case of William Cantelo, inventor of a quickfiring gun, who mastered another skill, that of
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           <title>Marathon fist fight is declared a draw</title>
           
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  BEHIND a pub in the north of Hampshire flows the river Blackwater, borderline between the county and its next door neighbour, Surrey.
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           <title>Port brings wealth – but not for everyone</title>
           
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  LIFE in Southampton in early Victorian times had its ups as well as its downs, and it seems everyone was affected, whether a leading businessman or an
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