How elusory and arbitrary are memories of youth, blossoming like acne.
I used to get the 48A from The Clock Inn, Fair Oak and head in to town where Subway Records would be the first port of call.
Then on to the clothes shop (can’t recall the name but it was later a Doc Martens shop) at the back of the bus station.
Try on the harringtons and sta-press then off to central baths for a frogman’s eyeview of the plunging daredevils.
Lunch at Wimpy or later Huckleberry’s then back to the bus or the train (via Bondage and General in commercial road).
Over the years I ploughed on through Pringle and v-neck Lyle and Scott’s from Tyrells and went all vintage in Stage Door Johnnies, The Hidden Wardrobe and Decades.
Spent way too much money on Postcard Records in Underground and Weasels.
Now all my ebay shops are saved to favourites. 
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Originally posted by @Goatboy
How elusory and arbitrary are memories of youth, blossoming like acne.
I used to get the 48A from The Clock Inn, Fair Oak and head in to town where Subway Records would be the first port of call.
Then on to the clothes shop (can’t recall the name but it was later a Doc Martens shop) at the back of the bus station.
Try on the harringtons and sta-press then off to central baths for a frogman’s eyeview of the plunging daredevils.
Lunch at Wimpy or later Huckleberry’s then back to the bus or the train (via Bondage and General in commercial road).
Over the years I ploughed on through Pringle and v-neck Lyle and Scott’s from Tyrells and went all vintage in Stage Door Johnnies, The Hidden Wardrobe and Decades.
Spent way too much money on Postcard Records in Underground and Weasels.
Now all my ebay shops are saved to favourites.
I remember Stage Door Johnnies! Just off London Road?
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Here goes the evening shift!
Millbrook Road
Millbrook Road - bit later on.
Western Esplanade 1900. This was the town swimming baths. They had separate male, left hand side of the building, with female on the right hand side.
Here is the ‘modern’ car park replacement.
A lovely row of terrace houses on Maddison street in 1952. A grocery store on the corner, with the famous walls at the other end.
Terraced house gone in 1985 and replaced with these modern accommodations… Picture around 2004.
A least they left the walls!
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Looking along Wndsor Terrace toward the Civic Centre 1947. Hants and Dorset bus station on the left and the grand theatre in the background.
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Windsor terrace now just a service area for the Marlands shopping centre.
The pictures of this area sadden me the most. I am sure after the 50p cinema at the ABC or Odean, me and a mate used to go to the bus station to get the bus back to Swaythling. I know people say about the pie shop, but I am sure there used to be a cake shop as well, or was it the same place?
The Generating Station dominates the skyline, but also Southern Railway’s, West Station, was renamed Central Station in 1935.
The Power Station was demolished in 1977.
The legendary Plested’s Pie Shop, with the Grand Theatre next door. This is Windsor Terrace 1950. The shops in these photos were demolished and replaced in the 60’s. The replacements were knocked down for the below.
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The Grand Theatre and the Hants & Dorset bus station here on Civic Centre road. 1960.
Bus station, Lord Louis public house and the Grand Theatre have all gone. Replaced by the Marlands shopping centre.
Also the fountain removed or moved should I say, to allow for road improvements, on the main west route.
Windsor Terrace 1905. The Grand Theatre opened in 1898 on 28th November.
