SOUTHAMPTON BUS STATION Civic Centre Road 1933 - 1987

Southampton Bus Station was located in Civic Centre Road in the centre of Southampton. The Bus Station was opened on Monday 23rd January 1933 by Sir Reginald Ford. Southampton Bus Station closed in July 1987 and was demolished in the same year to make way for the Marlands Shopping Centre which still stands on the site today. The Rose Garden which was outside of the Bus Station was removed from the middle of Civic Centre Road.

[@grahamsmith5485]

Southampton city council has done more damage than the Luftwaffe

[@boxingcleverround2899]

Thanks for the pics...Wasn't life a lot simpler then...Wish I could time travel...People were freer then inside and out...Who said progress was a good thing, although of course it is an inevitable thing...I worked on the QE2 back from 83-84 and times were good...

[@margaretmcvickers9006]

I grew up in Southampton and worked there, it was a lovely town then, shame on them, the council.

[@rupertpitt4]

That they pulled down this wonderful bus station and put up concrete monsters is a disgrace.

[@Euroboss01]

Rupert Pitt yet i bet you have shopped in marlands more than you ever used a bus

[@andrewculley738]

I used to get the ‘green’ Hants and Dorset Romsey bus here in the 60’s to get home to Maybush. Southampton still needs a bus station, the current provision is an utter shambles.

[@gbentley8176]

It was so convenient after shopping. also plenty of shelter in the wet and a person to ask if help was needed.

[@helenhicks7542]

We allways called the hants and Dorset the green buses, like they weren't really ours like the red ones, those were the days! !!!!!

[@user-to1jl2so7e]

2023
Very happy memories Southampton had everything right in those days

[@TrevsMum]

I was so shocked to find the bus station had gone - and the coach station in Bedford place too! :(

[@grahamsaywell2537]

I just remember the old bus station

[@2Truth2you]

Destroyed one of the best parts of Southampton.

[@clnre]

Its sad that so many bus stations have been lost to redevelopment, for a one off windfall payment a valuable civic amenity is lost.

[@coolhand1966]

I remember there was an alley that connected the Bus Station and Above Bar St. At the south side of the station close to the alley there was a men's barbers and a very small independent record store that sold vinyl albums. This was before HMV opened. Anyone have any info. on the record store? Are there any photos anywhere showing the stores that surrounded the station etc.?

[@andygoodtube8421]

I think the record store was called Subway Records

[@More-Space-In-Ear]

Ah the good old days...

[@michaeldavidgraves3961]

I remember the old pie shop at the bus station.

[@brianfulford6379]

we all loved dem pies ..

[@leeandbeahinton]

Plesteds

[@phina8392]

Wow the 58 to Lepe beach, oh I so miss that Lido many a long day there bottle op pop and jam sarnies.

[@gbentley8176]

How many remember the Lido today? Southampton lacks soul today and has been ravaged by the council over the years.

[@phina8392]

@@gbentley8176 I think a lot of my age will remember the Lido to be fair. And be pretty pissed off how Southampton is now.

[@underwaterbubbles]

Ah yes the old bus station and the Plested pie shop.

[@ianm452]

And Lowmans at the south end of the row of shops (possibly next to Plesteds, whose pies I enjoyed), with their lardy cakes.

[@yaggiboom9644]

My family did all the pie cooking there. The Plesteds were the managers.

[@johnkitcher7536]

Those were the days

[@darreng745]

I was tiniking back to this day remembering as a kid how we'd take the bus down to Southampton arriving at the bus station, then go shopingp and then come back and grab a fish and chips meal at the restaurant over the bus station offices.
These days Southampton would love a bus station like that except now it's a shopping center the site having been sold by the dastardly duo to fund their expansion aims.
But I wish we could go back..............

[@pplpaul4747]

81 from Hamble

[@70sboy98]

Does anyone remember Piccolo Mondo cafe ?

[@nicolacollett7943]

Luv this ❤❤🚃

[@briansutherland5414]

We're pub called Manchester arms Manchester road ta

[@ianm452]

I thought Hants & Dorset were green and cream, not red and cream as in this video?

[@ianm452]

The red and cream ones were Southampton Corporation buses.

[@yaggiboom9644]

They were Tilling Green. After the NBC formation H&D and Wilts and Dorset were put under joint management and the NBC poppy red was used for both companies.

[@andygoodtube8421]

This was the Hants & Dorset bus station, the Corporation buses parked between the parks in Poundtree Rd

[@gbentley8176]

@@andygoodtube8421 A whole row of Guy Arabs no less.

[@jasonrayner7312]

Lovely video ruined by the music