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Description: | The simple stone horse trough on Western Esplanade, just below West Gate, was erected in 1903. The inscription on the side facing the town walls is from S T Coleridge. The opposite side reads: "To the loving memory of Madame Maes and the other members of the Marett family whose house [Westgate House] stood on the site and was built and occupied by them AD 1700-1900". The memorial was paid for by the daughter of Madame Maes, and was made by Garret and Haysom. The town walls on the left-hand side are not medieval but Victorian, dating from 1898-1900.
Westgate House was built about 1760 and demolished in 1898 to clear the way for the extension of Western Esplanade, completed in 1900. The house had straddled the town walls. The last occupant was Madame Maes, the youngest widowed sister, Hannah Winifred, of Charles Marett, a barrister in London, who owned the property between 1870 and 1898. She had married a Frenchman, Joseph Emile Maes of Nantes, and by convention was known as Madame Maes. She died in 1897.
Our postcard is a W H Smith 'Kingsway' photographic card, no. S 15024
Reference:
Leonard, A G K, Westgate House and Madame Maes, Journal of the Southampton Local History Forum, No. 11, Winter 2003, p. 1-5. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | trough Hannah Winifred Maes Madame Maes cannon saluting battery Westgate House Hannah Winifred Marett Marett family S T Coleridge Stella Memorial Garret and Haysom Western Shore horse trough town walls Western Esplanade | Temporal: | start=1903-01-01; end=1913-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | W H Smith | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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