Northam, Southampton

On the West bank of the River Itchen, it shares borders with St Mary's, Bitterne and Bevois Valley.

Beside the border with St Mary's is the Chapel area, which has been home to some recent apartment building developments in Northam.

[5] The chapel appears to have ceased to be used as a result of the Dissolution of the monasteries and was certainly no longer being used by 1563 when a man named Thomas Gardiner attempted to purchase it.

[7][8] Around the same time Chapel Yard was set up close to the site of the modern Itchen bridge.

[14] Shortly afterwards (by 1842) John Rubie opened a third shipyard just downstream of the Summers and Day yard.

[3] In 1888 Northam Primary School was built on Peel road to a design by Edwin Howell.

Over 350 Northam residents died aboard RMS Titanic when it foundered off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912; 125 students at one school alone were orphaned.

[22] In 1965, further work was undertaken on the A3024, the dual carriageway which runs through Northam, to coincide with the opening of the M27 motorway.

[24] In order to continue to Southampton Terminus railway station the line had to cross Northam road.

[25] This required the extension of the bridge which was done by added a cast iron section[25] The junction was altered in 1902 to reduce the sharpness of the curve which had previously limited trains to 7MPH.

[25] The New bridge was of steel construction supported by girder lattices[25] Northam station closed on 3 September 1966 and was demolished by the end of the decade.

As well as the regional news magazine programme Meridian Tonight, the studios were originally home to the very first series of the popular game show Catchphrase (before it moved to Maidstone Studios) and handled transmission of Meridian, Anglia and HTV West, as well as Saturday morning children's programmes like The Saturday Banana.

[37] Building work started in 2016 and by late 2023 Inland Homes had completed two blocks of apartments and begun a third before entering administration on 17 October.

The Augustine Centre
The television studios, demolished in 2009