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Description: | A photograph by G Whitfield Cosser, from which many postcards were issued, either by Cosser himself or by firms to whom he sold the print, up to 1917. It was taken not long after the Stella memorial was unveiled on 27 July 1901 by Lady Emma Crichton. The 'Stella' was an LSWR steamer which sunk off the Casquets in Guernsey on Good Friday 1899. The memorial was in memory of Mrs Ann Rogers, a stewardess who (according to the inscription) "amid the confusion and terror of shipwreck aided all the women under her charge to quit the vessel in safety giving her own lifebelt to one who was unprotected". The canopied drinking fountain, built of Portland stone and designed by Herbert Bryans, was funded by public subscription.
The new line of Western Esplanade was laid out in autumn 1898 and opened to traffic in April 1900. The saluting battery of guns was moved here from the Platform. In the distance is the Royal Pier, opened in 1892.
Copy photograph of a postcard.
References:
1. Douch, Robert. 1968. Monuments and Memorials in Southampton, p. 21.
2. Leonard, Alan and Rodney Baker. 1989. A Maritime History of Southampton Postcards, p. 41. | 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: | saluting battery Royal Pier Stella shipwreck Stella Memorial pier monument Herbert Bryans Ann Rogers cannon Western Esplanade | Temporal: | start=1901-01-01; end=1910-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | G Whitfield Cosser; (Copied by: Dine, Derek; Hampshire County Library) | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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