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The Sir James Matthews building is changing hands after it was purchased by the University of Southampton.

YOUR photo of Boscombe before the Sovereign Centre was built reminded me of how Boscombe used to be. I wish it had continued.

Facebook group We Grew Up In Southampton was asked which shops from Hampshire's past they missed the most.

The store adopted the name Bournes before closing in 1983. The site is now occupied by Poundland. Bourne and Hollingsworth. C&A The shop had first appeared in Southampton in the September of 1936, but the building was destroyed in an air raid on the night of November 30, 1940. For almost all of the next seven years shoppers had to make do without C&A. The new store, opposite the Civic Centre and just a few minutes' walk from the former Hants and Dorset bus station, boasted more than 20,000 sq ft of showroom space and employed 80 members of staff. With its huge, glass-fronted arcad...

This photograph was taken by an amateur photographer during the celebrations for the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1902. The coronation ceremony itself had been postponed from Thursday 26 June until Saturday 9 August, owing to the king being taken ill with appendicitis at the last minute. However, the planned two-day bank holiday, together with all the special events that had been planned in towns up and down the land, largely went ahead while the king was lying on the operating table. It was just too late to cancel and, perhaps understandably, the long-planned two-...