Monthly Archives: September 2022

This morning at 10.30 am a group of FoSOC members gathers by the Cross of Sacrifice to lay a wreath in remembrance of Queen Elizabeth 11. There was a minutes silence before the wreath was laid. All there were sadden by the death of our beloved Queen. Photos by Bruce Larner

Yesterday, the  4th of September, FoSOC guide Lizzie O’Sullivan took a group of nineteen people on the final tour of themed walks and the final one for FoSOC for this year. Next walk will be Titanic in April 2023. We heard the stories of Southampton people who died directly and indirectly as a result of the bombs dropped on Southampton during WW2. Here are just a few. Earnest and Eliza Lanham and their daughter Freda and cousin Charlotte, who was staying the night with the Lanhams in their house in Alexandra Road, took a fateful decision not to go to the shelter when the air raid sounded that night but stayed in bed. A bomb crashed through the roof of their house killing Ernest and Eliza in their bed and Charlotte in the rubble. Miraculously, Freda who was in the back … Continue reading →