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Description: | A view looking north along West Quay. The fourteenth-century arcaded town walls were a popular topic for postcard publishers. The building of the red-brick St Michael's House in 1899 rather spoilt the view, and publishers tried not to give this prominence in their subsequent postcards. St Michael's House was built by Southampton Corporation as a public lodging house, part of the town's first municipal slum clearance scheme. The building was demolished in 1972.
Earlier photographs of this view show the pitched roof of the so-called King John's Palace behind the walls on the far right. The roof and upper floor were removed about 1910, leaving the open shell we see today.
The postcard was published by R F Fielder of Southampton, part of the "Holyrood Series". | 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: | walls building Arcade public lodging house town defences Town Walls St Michael's House | Temporal: | start=1902-01-01; end=1922-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | R F Fielder | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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