Before Holy Rood - More Of Southampton'S Lost Streets

Southampton's 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 town's 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 was there.