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The tie caught the imagination of the whole city and seven trainloads of fans travelled down to London to see their team take on the Cup holders

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Kendrick took up the dangerous and unpredictable sport of hot air ballooning – because he was terrified of heights

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Before Holy Rood - More of Southampton's Lost Streets Style:Paperback later to become famous asFirst Published 1st Nov 2025 Southamptons Holy Rood Housing Estate covers a wide area east of the old town. Built in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it replaced a mixture of crumbling Victorian terraces, tenements and courts that at one time formed the towns most densely populated district. Affluence and poverty mingled side by side until it was all swept away by slum clearances, bombs and modernisation. Local historian Dave Marden looks back on what