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Description: | The saluting battery had moved from the Platform to Western Esplanade about 1900, when the new road was laid out. In its full extent, the battery consisted of nine pieces: six nine-pounders supplied by the Board of Ordnance from Portsmouth in 1835, a culverine presented to the town by Henry VIII and two cannons captured at Sebastopol in the Crimean War given by the War Office in 1857. A photograph of the battery firing a royal salute was published in Southampton Annual, 1902, p. 26. The cannon of the battery were last fired at the Victory Celebrations in 1920 by the Hampshire Royal Garrison Artillery. They were removed for the war effort at the start of the Second World War, the Henry VIII culverine alone being saved. This is now in Tudor House Museum.
In the distance is the Stella memorial, built in 1901 to honour Mrs Ann Rogers, who sacrificed her own life when the LSWR steamer Stella was shipwrecked off Guernsey in 1899. Part of the town walls and Cuckoo Lane are on the right-hand side of the photograph.
Our postcard is postmarked 26 March 1912 (?). | 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: | Cuckoo Lane saluting battery Hampshire Royal Garrison Artillery Western Shore town walls Western Esplanade cannon | Temporal: | start=1902-01-01; end=1912-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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