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Eventually he was successful, and the house opened as a museum on 31 July 1912. [10] During the Second World War Tudor House and Garden remained open as a museum, and the wine cellar was used as an air raid shelter by the museum curator, Edward Judd, and his family during the Southampton Blitz in 1940. Tudor House remained undamaged, however a ...
Southampton is a city in Hampshire, England.The area has been settled since the Stone Age. Its history has been affected by its geographical location, on a major estuary on the English Channel coast with an unusual double high tide, and by its proximity to Winchester and London; the ancient and modern capitals of England.
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Pam Cook, author on cinema history [24] William Crozier, contemporary still-life and landscape artist [25] Michael Finnissy, composer, pianist and former president of the International Society of Contemporary Music [26] Michael Zev Gordon, composer [27] Heinz Henghes, modernist sculptor [28] Aamer Hussein, short story writer and literary critic ...
The city has produced a large number of musicians throughout its history, ranging from hymn writer Isaac Watts, who was born in Southampton in 1674 [217] and whose composition O God, Our Help in Ages Past is played by the bells of Southampton Civic Centre, [218] to more recent musical acts such as singer Jona Lewie, who was born in Southampton ...
The SeaCity Museum is a museum in Southampton, England, which opened on 10 April 2012 to mark the centenary of RMS Titanic's departure from the city. It is housed within a part of the Grade II* listed civic centre building which previously housed the magistrates' court and police station .
The wool trade was the basis of Southampton's prosperity in the middle ages. During the Napoleonic wars The Wool House was used to accommodate French prisoners of war, some of whose names may be seen carved on the beams of the roof. This building was restored by the city corporation and opened as a Maritime Museum in June 1966.
Ordnance Survey originally came to Southampton on 12 November 1841, a fortnight after a fire had destroyed its headquarters in the Tower of London.It took over vacant buildings that had been built between 1794 and 1806 as barracks for the Duke of York's Royal Military School, before being used between 1816 and 1840 as a branch of the Chelsea-based Royal Military Asylum. [1]