Southampton Water, Slaughter and Trade – Part II
a talk by Andrew Negus
We shall see how Southampton returned to being a great port and left its foppish ‘Spa-days’ behind it. Many interesting characters will feature, including 2 kings (one being the King of the Pixies), Jane Austen and a very courageous woman. We will have to meet a pirate and a sex fiend who, together, helped create education in the town. For good measure we have cannibals, a lion tamer and sadly the Titanic disaster.
Andrew is a retired History teacher, an around the world backpacker (twice), a Blue Badge guide for central southern England, and he aspires to be a local historian. He also keep chickens, bees and daughters.