Images of Southampton

Southampton City Heritage Services provides opportunities for people to study and enjoy the city's past. Its photographic collection contains some 50,000 images, giving a rare insight into many aspects of Southampton's past. Here is a selection.

Southampton had several eminent Victorian photographers who left a legacy of candid pictures depicting both work and play, while the work of more recent photographers provide a graphic illustration of the rapidly changing face of a maritime city.

"Images of Southampton" comprises pictures from this City Heritage Services collection and the result is a book which will delight and inform residents and visitors alike.