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Commonwealth War Graves Commision

Aviation
Pemberton Billing & Supermarine
Just a few hundred yards from the Holmes Foundry stood the Pemberton-Billing/Vickers-Supermarine works; where the Spitfire and Schneider Trophy aeroplanes were designed and built.The works were in business in HazelRoad during the same period as The Foundry in Wharf Road.

The Spitfire Society

The R J Mitchell Story
Story of the man who designed the S6B & the Spitfire

The Story of the development of the SPITFIRE

SUPERMARINE
New website dedicated to RJM & the Spitfire

A History of Solent Aviation
Woolston,Hamble & Eastleigh's role in the development of aircraft from the pioneering days to the post-war jet.

Dorset Family History
TORPEDO FACTORY

A history of Wyke Regis
Around about the end of the 19C , John Wm Holmes ("Bill") & his bro. Thomas ("Tom") moved to Dorset . There they worked in the torpedo factory

Family Websites
John Holmes' family tree

Favorite Web Sites
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Hampshire History
Street & Trade Directories 1811-1970

Woolston UK Village Website

Netley Abbey

Maritime History
The Floating Bridge
A pictorial history...through Photographs and paintings

Woolston ferry Song & Video

The Red Funnel Steamship Company

The Itchen Bridge
A History of Crossing the Itchen

Salisbury FC
Salisbury City FC
managed by Nick Holmes

Woolston History
Street name changes in Woolston and Bitterne
When Woolston was subject to a hostile take-over from Southampton in 1920...some street names had to be changed

Memories of Woolston
Historic photo's and articles relating to Woolston

Yorkshire History
Driffield & the Wolds Genealogy
Partial records from parish registers,trade directories, news items etc

Hull Historic site
Horatio HOLMES lived in HULL from 149-1866 His great-grandson John Edmund HOLMES was at the University of HULL 1977-1981

A History of the Sculcoates area of Hull
Horatio Holmes spent his formative years in Sculcoates

Sculcotes Workhouse

Walkington News
The Barrel public House in Walkington, was kept by Joseph Holmes b.1834, then by his daughter Ada (b.1877) & her husband Charles Ash, whose daughter Annie married into the Oxtoby Family