SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS CELEBRATING 1TS 175 BIRTHDAY THIS WEEKEND

 Plenty going on at the Docks this weekend to celebrate it's birthday.  Over it's long history, it has seen some very glamorous people embark\disembark from Royalty, Hollywood Actors, politicians etc.   Indeed, my Grandfather saw Elizabeth Taylor and Mike Todd come into Southampton after sailing across from the States on The Queen Mary.
Duke and Duchess  of Windsor arriving into Southampton on the RMS Queen Mary

Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford on their Honeymoon arriving into Southampton on  in the 1920s on the RMS Olympic







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