A real Southampton ‘local’, Edwin Rowland Moon was born 8th June 1886 in Cranbury Avenue, Southampton. His father, also Edwin, was a...

Many people living on Hampshire’s coast will still remember the proliferation of barrage balloons that flew both on the coast itself, and...

During the late summer of 1940, Cunliffe-Owen at Eastleigh [Southampton] Airport were busily repairing Hurricanes and Spitfires which had...

The ‘flights of fantasy’ stories of Jules Verne, H G Wells and other early science fiction writers fired the imaginations of many a young...

Eric James Brindley ‘Nic’ Nicholson holds the distinction of not only being the only Fighter Command VC of the Second World War, but the...

Picture the scene – a sunny early September day in 1942. Young Rachel and Eddie Jones are playing in their garden near Romsey. They hear...

The Solent area, whilst famous for the aviation history of the various companies along the coast and on the Isle of Wight, will always be...

Most of Southampton and Eastleigh’s residents will have been familiar for many years with the imposing size of the Ford motor plant –...

Many readers have seen the 1967 James Bond film ‘You Only Live Twice’, starring Sean Connery as Bond, and one of Bond’s most famous...

The German invasion of Norway in April 1940, and the now seemingly unstoppable advance of her armies across Europe began, it seemed...

20th April 1942 – a huge military parade on a bright, clear spring morning is being held along Unter der Linden in central Berlin to...

After brief combat action between the Allies and the Messerschmitt 163 Komet rocket fighter during the latter part of the Second World...

By the outbreak of the Second World War, the RAF had 187 Spitfires in service with ten Squadrons, although in comparison, the similar...

0530 15 September 1950 – HMS Unicorn, off Inchon, Korea. Lt Cdr Al Jones, CO of 848 FAA Squadron, signals for engine starts on his...