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TITANIC -The Last Survivor Millvina Dean
£14.95Hardback book describing the fascinating life of the Titanic’s last survivor – Millvina Dean. The author’s trace her history back to her birth in Devon and the sad death of her father during the journey on Titanic. Millvina survived with her mother and brother Bertram Dean.
Millvina lived in Southampton most of her life and became a celebrity when she became the final person in the world to live following the Titanic disaster in 1912.
64 pages, hardback, full of black and white and colour photographs. £14.95
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Southern Steam Surrender
£16.9550th anniversary of Southern Steam in full archive film covering the last weeks of SR steam in 1967.
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The Story of the RMS Queen Mary
£14.95The Queen Mary was one of those famous icons of the 20th century. The world’s most famous ocean liner spent 31 years crossing the North Atlantic […]
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Solent Flying with Bristish Pathe
£14.95Rare newsreels from the British Pathe collection with 45 minutes of early attempts in producing flying boats in the Solent area. Factories in Southampton, Cowes and Hamble were all instrumental in developing the newly formed flying machine into a waterborne amphibian. Film of the first launching at Fairey Aviation at Hamble Point in the 1920s and many developments as the decades progressed to the first jet-powered fighter flying boat, the SRA1 and Princess Flying Boat of the early 1950s. We see many scenes of the Schneider Trophy attempts in the Solent at which Britain was leader for many years, retaining the trophy for keeps.
We end with scenes of the flying school at Hamble where pilots were trained for commercial services and the other Solent invention – the hovercraft which was designed by Sir Chistopher Cockerell on the banks of Southampton Water.
45 minutes £14.95




