Daily Echo | Heritage | Nostalgia and memories of years gone by in Southampton and Hampshire

Lord Tennyson

12:11pm Thursday 21st June 2007

Tennyson is widely regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry.

William II Rufus

12:10pm Thursday 21st June 2007

King William II was the second surviving son of William the Conqueror and during his time as king of England had powers over Normandy and influence in Scotland. He made unsuccessful attempts to gain power in Wales in 1096 and 1097.

King Canute

12:09pm Thursday 21st June 2007

A Viking king whose area of power included England, Denmark, Norway, and parts of Sweden and is most famous for reportedly commanding the waves to go back.

Lord Maybray King

12:08pm Thursday 21st June 2007

Born in 1901, Horace King was later educated in Stockton and Kings College London where he obtained a first class Honours Degree and a PhD.

Sir Sidney Kimber

12:08pm Thursday 21st June 2007

These days perhaps the name Sir Sidney Guy Kimber has slipped from the minds of many local Southampton people but the way much of the city looks today is the result of his foresight.

Tyrrell & Green

12:03pm Thursday 21st June 2007

For more than 100 years the names Tyrell and Green and Southampton went through much together, sharing in adversity and prosperity.

Edwin Jones

12:02pm Thursday 21st June 2007

It was a humble beginning for Edwin Jones, a name that many Southampton people will still recall, who went on to become one of the south's most influential businessmen of his time.

Herbert Collins

12:01pm Thursday 21st June 2007

Southampton's Swaythling Housing Society was founded on November 26, 1925 by Herbert Collins, an architect who had been designing local homes since 1922.

Jack Mantle VC

11:30am Thursday 21st June 2007

Jack Mantle, whose home was in Southampton, received the only Victoria Cross awarded to the Navy for an act of valour on mainland Britain during the Second World War.

Edward Turner Sims

11:29am Thursday 21st June 2007

Edward Turner Sims is best known today for his association with the university of Southampton's concert hall through a legacy that launched a fundraising appeal for the £216,000 building costs.

Sir John Everett Millais

11:28am Thursday 21st June 2007

AN ARTISTIC prodigy, Millais was the youngest ever student to enter the prestigious Royal Academy Schools and completed his first major oil painting aged just 16.

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery

11:27am Thursday 21st June 2007

FAMOUS for his victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1943, Montgomery - or Monty - was the most well-known British general of the Second World War.

Captain E J Smith

11:27am Thursday 21st June 2007

HE will always be remembered as synonymous with one of the greatest disasters of modern times.

Queen Victoria

11:14am Thursday 21st June 2007

These days Queen Victoria is thought as being rather disapproving and withdrawn figure but in her younger days she was known to be warmhearted and lively with a gift for drawing and painting; educated by a governess at home, she was a natural diarist and kept a regular journal throughout her life.

General Gordon

11:13am Thursday 21st June 2007

He is remembered as Gordon of Khartoum', the city in the Sudan where he was killed by forces loyal to the Mahdi in 1885.

Jane Austen

11:12am Thursday 21st June 2007

SHE put Hampshire firmly on the literary map.

TE Lawrence

11:10am Thursday 21st June 2007

Born Thomas Edward Lawrence in Tremadoc, North Wales, he was the second of five boys.

Sir Christopher Cockerell

11:09am Thursday 21st June 2007

HE belonged to a breed of scientists typical of post-war Britain, with a restless mind prolific with ideas.

Lord Denning

11:08am Thursday 21st June 2007

Lord Denning is widely regarded as one of the greatest law-making judges and also the most controversial.

Lord Montagu

11:05am Thursday 21st June 2007

LORD Montagu inherited his peerage aged two when his father was killed in an accident. He took his seat in the House of Lords as soon as he came of age.

Florence Nightingale

10:55am Thursday 21st June 2007

THE Lady with the Lamp' is known for nursing sick and wounded soldiers during the Crimean War.

RJ Mitchell

10:54am Thursday 21st June 2007

Despite his life being tragically cut short, the name of Reginald Joseph Mitchell and his association with Southampton will live on as long as a Spitfire is able to take to the skies.

Lord Nelson

10:51am Thursday 21st June 2007

FORGET modern day celebrities, Nelson was an idol of his day.

King Alfred

10:51am Thursday 21st June 2007

HE is considered the first ever King of England and known as a great warrior as well as a social reformer.

Charles Dickens

10:50am Thursday 21st June 2007

WORLD famous novelist Charles Dickens was born at Landport in Portsmouth. His father, John, was a clerk in the Navy pay office in Portsmouth. Charles was the second of John and Elizabeth Dickens' eight children.

Millvina Dean

10:48am Thursday 21st June 2007

FROM a very early age, Millvina Dean's life was tinged with tragedy.