Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I lived in Southampton for six or seven years in the early 70s (I was at University there) we always reckoned that it had the prettiest girls in the country... Still true Gerry? Peter SonC@aol.com wrote: > My first experience in England was to visit Southampton; our ship docked > there. The year was 1958, I was 13, and it was a stop as we were going to join > my father who was stationed in Germany. We would be posted at Wetzlar, as it > happens. I mostly remember some pretty girls, and that when we had an > afternoon tea, the shop had no soft drinks, and I had an orange squash to drink > with my biscuits. > Sonny > In a message dated 3/26/2004 9:51:15 PM Pacific Standard Time, > Gwpics@aol.com writes: > > I live in the home port of the QMII (and the QE2 for that matter) and have > images of both of them if it is of interest. The port of Southampton is > probably the largest passenger port in Europe and was the port from which > Titanic > sailed. It was reckoned that every street in the town lost somebody when > the > Titanic went down. > Gerry > Gerry Walden LRPS > _www.gwpics.com_ (http://www.gwpics.com/) > +44 (0)23 8046 3076 > _______________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >