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Above: Postcard view of Bitterne High Street looking West, Lion Place on the left with Red Lion visible beyond, circa 1895.
From the BLHS collection.

Dr Cheryl Butler

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‘The Tinners’, Woolston British Legion by Steve Adams

History of Merry Oak by Jim Brown

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