Before Holy Rood - More of Southampton's Lost Streets Teesside who spent almost a year

who spent almost a year in charge of the Ethiopian national team

He went on to be one of the pioneers of distance running

sporting activities and social occasions as well as local personalities going about their business are portrayed

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Comparative old and modern illustrations demon strate the astonishing growth and redevelopment that has occurred within living memory

Before Holy Rood - More of Southampton's Lost Streets Teesside who spent almost a yearFirst 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