Southampton 1947 1940s, Bomb Damage and the Docks and Queen Mary Ship F319
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- A sweet short film from projected 8mm standard cine film of Southampton and cruise ships in the docks in 1947. This has remarkable colour and detail for this type of film that is this old.
Music by Bensounds.com
We moved to Southampton early in 1950 and Above Bar was a mass of bomb sites. Woolworths comprised a wooden hut set up on the bombed base of their original store and had to be reached via a wooden bridge across an exposed cellar. Gradually during the 1950s the mainly concrete buildings that are there now were erected.
When I got to know Southampton (a bit) from 1960s through 70s, there were still quite a number of very obvious gaps from bomb damage. As there were in many towns and cities.
I think I know what you mean. I did not realise it at the time, but many gaps in urban areas which I saw in the London of the 1980s must have been the rested aftermath of a bomb gap. Perhaps we were all closer to the war than we thought.
I think that the old mastless sailing vessel seen at around 2:27 was the training ship TS Mercury which was closed in 1968.
Some great footage there! Interesting to see Holyrood Church not long after the bombing
1947. The year I was born.
Me too, August 1947
TY 🙏🙏
Hi. We'd love to use some of this film at our museum as we've just done an art project about rebuilding Southampton after the Second World War. Maxustaxus please can we do that?
Hi, for this sort of request please contact me through the channel email (under channel information when you sign in). This would probably be fine, but I would like to know a little more...
What is the music ?
It is by Bensounds.com, I think this exact song is called "A Day to Remember". The credit usually appears at the start of the video, but I seem to have forgotten this time. It now appears in the description below.