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Description: | "I hope you will like this card, it is one of the prettiest views of Southampton. It is very hot here today, we are going over to Cowes tomorrow. August 2nd". (reverse of card).
The Avenue runs from the northern end of London Road to the north end of the Common and has trees planted along its length. It was originally a drove road, becoming turnpiked in 1758. The original plantings at the south end were said to be in commemoration of the Battle of Culloden (1746).
This is one of the '7000' series of Stuart postcards, one of only five in the series for Southampton. F G O Stuart made this separate series for views which were already used in his normal numbered cards. They were all early (generally postmarked 1903/4) and printed in Saxony. In this early view, the road surface looks rough, and the kerb seems to end abruptly.
References:
1. City of Southampton Society. 1979. Southampton Common, p. 19-22 (by Sheila D Thomson).
2. Foley, J H. [1990]. Francis Godolphin Osborne Stuart: a check list of the postcards issued from 1901 to circa 1928. | 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: | turnpike street The Avenue Avenue road | Temporal: | start=1901-01-01; end=1914-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | F G O Stuart | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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