Before Holy Rood - More of Southampton's Lost Streets Style:Paperback from its beginnings in the

from its beginnings in the 19th century to the present day

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Before Holy Rood - More of Southampton's Lost Streets Style:Paperback from its beginnings in theFirst 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