just wanted to let you know about this project (from www.thisissouthampton.co.uk) STAFF at Southampton City Council's Archaeology Unit and the Library Service have joined forces to help the Southampton's Museums Archaeological Society to record the City's vanishing Victorian Heritage. Members of the society are making a photographic record of every building that was in Southampton in 1870 and still survives today. Using maps of 1870 provided by the Special Collections Unit of the Central Library, local people are pounding their streets photographing the buildings that were shown on the old maps and can still be seen today. The first phase of the project has been completed and the buildings in Freemantle, Sholing, Highfield and Woolston have been recorded. Some 593 photographs and negatives have been handed over to the library who will be making them available over the Internet via the Plimsoll website in the coming months. Each photograph has been allocated a grid reference from the Archaeology Unit's digital maps so researchers will be able to pinpoint specific buildings. Linda & Tony