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Daily Echo through the ages

The old Southern Daily Echo offices at 45 in Above Bar, Southampton, which became a familiar landmark within the city for many years.
The Foundation Stone of the Daily Echo’s new premises at Above Bar is unveiled in 1952
The Southern Daily Echo’s current headquarters at Redbridge.
The first turf is cut on the site that would soon become the Southern Daily Echo’s new home on Above Bar.
A close up of the inscription on the Echo Office’s foundation stone.
The twisted remains of the destroyed print presses are pictured here in this interior shot of the bombed out Above Bar Echo offices shortly after the Blitz.
Southern Daily Echo delivery vans on site at the Daily Echo’s Above Bar headquarters.
Typesetting in the composing room in the days of hot metal printing.
An Echo employee is pictured demonstrating a bygone skill as he prepares the hot metal plate prior to printing in the composing room.
It was the end of an era in 1979 when computers arrived at the Daily Echo and signalled the decline of linotype operators. Echo employee Gordon Dyer is pictured here in a deserted composing room.
Lady Mountbatten is presented with an antique silver box, which she said she would treasure all the more because the Echo was her favourite newspaper, during the opening of the new Echo offices.
Building work on the new Echo offices on Above Bar beings to take shape when the area is cleared in the early fifties.
King George VI walks past the destroyed Echo offices shortly after they were bombed out during the Blitz of November 1940.
Typesetting in the composing room in the days of hot metal printing.
The Echo office’s famous clock.
Lord and Lady Mountbatten, the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert and Lady Perkins, with the Mayor and Mayoress of Southampton, Directors of Southern Newspapers Ltd., and other principal guests at the opening of the new "Echo" building.
Mountbatten accompanied by the Countess open the handsome bronze doors of the new Daily Echo offices in Above to officially declare the new Echo offices open for business.
The Daily Echo’s first premises pictured in 1888 – the year that the Daily Echo began.
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