The Plaques Project – What Next?

Listed below, with location, are the confirmed sites we would like to consider for the next plaques.

If you are interested in funding a plaque at any of these locations, or donating to the project, please go to our Donations & Sponsorship page for more details.

A full list of all the sites in the Southampton area that we know about, both confirmed and unconfirmed, can be downloaded here.

geographical-distribution-of-requisitioned-and-subcontractor-facilities.Download

Shirley, Regents Park, Millbrook, & Freemantle, Southampton

Requisitioned sites

Subcontractors

Container Box & Printing Co. (The). 30 gallon jettison fuel tanks. Premises accessed via old entrance to BAT between 90 and 92, Regents Park Road, Southampton? SO15 8PD

Dyas, J.C. Shop blinds and tent maker. 149, Payne’s Road, Freemantle, Southampton. Engine and hub covers. Now Winsor House, flats, 149, Paynes Rd, Southampton. SO15 3SQ

Government Training Centre. Old Redbridge Road, Southampton. Listed subcontractor making machined details. Now the site of a housing development: Brunel Road, Southampton. SO15 0LR

Ordnance Survey map 1942 showing Government Training Centre

Weir Precision. 7, South Mill Rd, Southampton. Machine-tool manufacturing. Machined details. Post war – Vero Precision Engineering closed 1999. Residential development Avro Close, Southampton. SO15 4AE

Southampton to the East of the River Itchen

Requisitioned sites

Itchen Works Air Raid Shelters. “Two pieces of land at Itchen”. Land, liable to flooding, filled with bombed building rubble and level raised. Open space for recreation and local nature reserve below Pear Tree Green.

Supermarine Shelters after the bombing in 1940. Peartree Green, Southampton

Newtown Works. Southern Joinery Co. (Electric Works) Requisitioned and subcontractor. Woodmill, woodwork. Off Botley Road, Hightown. Joinery workshop continued producing doors, window-frames etc. Residential development at end of Botley Gardens, Sholing, Southampton. SO19 0NT

Southampton Newtown Works. Image from Vickers Archives

Sholing Stores, Botley Road, Hightown. Finished part stores. Within Sholing Wild Park, Southampton. SO19 0NP

Southampton Sholing Stores. Image from Vickers Archive

Weston Works. Rolling mills for copper sheeting to make small artillery and naval shell cases. Partly occupied for copper-smithing facilities. Demolished and land used for housing and Weston Shore pitch and putt golf course, Southampton. SO19 9SH

Weston Rolling Mills, Southampton. Image from Vickers Archives

Subcontractors

Southampton Electric Joinery Works. Subcontractor from early 1939/40. Supplemented the wood shop at Woolston with trestles, steps, bins etc. ATC Property Maintenance (vacated) 190, Spring Road, Sholing, Southampton. SO19 2QG

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