Saturday, August 23, 2003
Warm and sticky again today, upper 70s with rain clouds teasing on their way north. Just the evening for a couple of pints in the garden of the Yacht!
I have uploaded the Peartree Maps page at http://www.peartreegreen.org/maps.htm or through any side menu. There is a sketch map of the Green and an image of the area from a map of 1871. I have also provided links to a number of maps of the Southamton area going back as far as 1575. I hope to add a current map of the area so that the Green can be seen in the context of modern Southampton but am waiting to hear from the copyright people at the Ordnance Survey.
One area I intend to cover which is not strictly part of Peartree Green and that is the Vosper Thorneycroft site on the shoreline at Woolston. The yard built it's last ship for the Navy this year and is now in the process of closing, the site will be redeveloped as a mixture of housing and retail units. The remit for the developers demands that the site be sensitively designed to add to the public amenity. There is a great opportunity really open up the waterfront to walkers and cyclists and to create an open link vertually from Peartree Green to Western Shore.
I have uploaded the Peartree Maps page at http://www.peartreegreen.org/maps.htm or through any side menu. There is a sketch map of the Green and an image of the area from a map of 1871. I have also provided links to a number of maps of the Southamton area going back as far as 1575. I hope to add a current map of the area so that the Green can be seen in the context of modern Southampton but am waiting to hear from the copyright people at the Ordnance Survey.
One area I intend to cover which is not strictly part of Peartree Green and that is the Vosper Thorneycroft site on the shoreline at Woolston. The yard built it's last ship for the Navy this year and is now in the process of closing, the site will be redeveloped as a mixture of housing and retail units. The remit for the developers demands that the site be sensitively designed to add to the public amenity. There is a great opportunity really open up the waterfront to walkers and cyclists and to create an open link vertually from Peartree Green to Western Shore.
