topshadow
Tudor Merchants Hall
Tudor Merchants Hall
Explore

Listen to the past and compare past and present

Catchcole Tower, Southampton, and the bay in the 1800s.
Photograph taken looking North along the walls in the 1800s.

Catchcole Tower and the modern West Quay shopping centre, Southampton 2008
The same view in 2008. There are currently plans to redevelop this area.

 

In the top photograph taken in the 1800s we can just see Catchcole Tower behind the tree in front and Arundel Tower a little further behind.

Listen to description of this area from Sir Henry Englefield, writing in 1801.

> See a transcript of the text

 

Do you think the modern development is an improvement?

 
     
   
Shadow corner
Explore is sponsored by Footmark Media Ltd