Southampton's new Spitfire memorial.

…… Im wondering if sopwith road is named after thomas sopwith although i wasnt aware he had any connections with eastleigh…….

He was a keen sailor and had some large boats – maybe that’s a connection

Roger Smith.

Thats just up the road from me, i think it should be full scale! my town (Eastleigh) doesnt really have a great deal going for it, i think we should cash in on our aviation heritage and have more spitifire stuff in our town, we used to have spitfire christmas lights, complete with rotating prop! we were probably the only town in the world with those lights but they dont use them now, probably some politicaly correct moamny person complaining “oh its not in the spirit of christmas having a war plane as decoration” we have a mitchell road and mitchell way which i guess is named after RJ mitchell, and also RJ mitchell court. we also have a sopwith road on the new estate which all the names represent well known people who have some connection with eastleigh (and also some streets named after cable related stuff as it was built on the site of the old pirelli buildings) Im wondering if sopwith road is named after thomas sopwith although i wasnt aware he had any connections with eastleigh.
I think there should be Spitfire street, skeeter street, airhorse avenue, concordia crescent, cierva close and cunliffe owen close!
Maybe at least one of them will be used as i have noticed that another new housing area being built has 2 roads that seem to be named after types of aircraft Rapide clode and Argosy crescent! although im sure these are nothing to do with eastleigh and maybe they arnt naming them after planes at all!

I just love journalists, especially those who cant even get the little things like basic facts right.:)

Colours would include the brown and green used during the Battle of Britain in 1941

I think “Jamafrican” speaks for the masses, when he asks “with Southampton trying to build on it’s status as a maritime city, why are we building a memorial to a plane?”

f**king priceless

I don’t disagree with sculptures – however I wish the money was spent down at Solent Sky on some of the stored projects instead.