MANY Southampton people remember with affection the rose garden and fountain that once stood in front of the Civic Centre before it was razed to make way for a new road system.
It was a delightful spot and back in decades past, when the amount of traffic in the city centre was far less than today, it was a pleasant place to idle away a few minutes on a bench surrounded by flowers and watching the fountain.
In the late 1980s the rose garden disappeared and this Daily Echo photograph shows a scene from December, 1959 when workmen re-aligned the western end of the rose garden for the start of the then new Inner Ring Road.
The derelict building behind is the remains of the old School of Art which was demolished shortly afterwards.
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