Everything you see here is mine. I created it. I put in the hours of walking to get to places and take pictures and more hours of research about the places and things I saw. If you like it, fine. If you want to use any of my images or words ask me first. You never know I might say yes but I will always ask you to add a link to my blog. If you steal my stuff I will hunt you down. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.
That is all.
Hi, can’t believe I’ve never found your posts before. This is what the net should be about, the circles,ripples walk details are wonderful, I have subscribed and will be following in your footsteps, thankyou from from a Southampton lad…
Thanks Lee. I’m glad you enjoyed reading. Walking is my passion along with the things I see and this beautiful city certainly has a lot to offer 🙂
Thank you for making me laugh out loud this evening! No worries, I won’t steal your stuff. I love to look at your photos. I feel like I am along for the journey thousands of miles away. Cheers!
I’m glad you like them 🙂
Hi, I am writing an illustrated essay on Bitterne for an MA in Urban Design, and I’d love to use two of your photos, one from a walk at Freemantle Common and one from Hum Hole to illustrate the green spaces Bitterne has to offer. Would that be ok? 🙂
Lois
Hi Lois, that would be fine. If possible could you add a credit to say where they came from?
There are also photos of Deep Dene if you need any and, of course, Riverside Park 🙂
Thank you so much. I will put your website under my bibliography section and on the images at the bottom the webpage.
Many thanks, lois
No worries. I hope it is well received 🙂
I’ve just found your blog and I’ve loved reading it so I have subscribed to receive future posts by email.
Thank you for taking the time to write your posts – they are so enjoyable.
p.s. I giggled at your ‘copyright’ wording – short, sweet and straight to the point!
Thank you for following. I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed reading and I have to say I enjoy writing so it seems everyone is happy. 🙂
hi Marie, i found your photo of Portsmouth Guildhall and i absolutely love it! as our language school is based in the building I was wondering if I could use it on our website and in the booklet about Meridian School of English? If so please let me know on karolinab@meridianenglish.com and we’ll arrange the appropriate copyright note. thank you! Karolina
Thank you Karolina. I’d be happy to let you use the photo, all I ask is that you add something to say it is my copyrighted image and mention my website.
that’s great! thank you so much! as soon as the website is ready i will send you also the link, so you can have a look how it was used:)
Thank you, I’d like that very much. Good luck with building it 🙂
Hello Marie,
I enjoyed walking with you in search of the HS boundary stones, I will log onto you more often,
Your ‘Don’t steal my stuff’ caught my eye and made me smile.
I am a retired professional photographer who used to be very protective of copyright.
I had to be, I had a number of staff whose salaries relied upon my photographs.
However, I continued to be protective even after I had retired, although I hadn’t any justification to be so.
Within the last couple of years I have done an about-turn, on the basis that sharing is a pleasure, I hopefully have 25-30 years ahead of me, and ‘there are no pockets in a shroud’ .
A fellow chocoholic
Roy
Glad you enjoyed reading Roy. In truth, I don’t mind my photos being used as long as someone asks first and shares a link to my blog. In fact they have been used (amongst others) by the southampton Canal Society on their website, on a winchester property finder’s site and by a couple of students as part of thesis research. What annoys me is finding them on another blog or website with no permission asked, claiming them as their own. I put in a lot of mile and hours to find, photograph and write about the city and feel, if people want photos they should make the effort and take them themselves or give credit to those who have.
I do also share them, regularly on the Southampton Heritage Facebook page. 🙂
Hello, Marie. I’m interested in obtaining print-worthy digital files of a couple of your lovely photographs of Huckleberry Rock, taken last October in Muskoka. I wonder if you could contact me to discuss? Many thanks for your consideration.
Hi Tracy. I will email you. Happy to help if I can.
I only popped in while researching Hum Hole (a boyhood playground), and found myself reading just about everything in your blog. The standard of photography is jaw-dropping, and your way with words is amazing. Thank you for entertaining me, and for rekindling my interest in the locality.
I’m glad you found me and enjoyed reading. I live very close to Hum Hole and it was part of my walk to school when I was a child. It’s changed a lot since then. Please feel free to come back any time. 🙂
Hello Marie,
What a beautiful blog – it brought back so many memories of the days my daughter and I would go for wanders around Eling, following Bartley Water, seeing the ducks and having picnics 🙂
I have been googling any interesting information on the area as I hope to create a lesson plan for my geography specialism at University, as I would love to take children on a field trip to this wonderful place. I would like to ask for your permission if I could use a couple of your photos of the board walk and the bridge over the water, as the only photos I have, are with my daughter in!
I will save this blog!
Kind Regards
Hi Eileen. I’m glad you enjoyed reading. It really is a lovely walk isn’t it? Please use whichever photos you like. The one thing I would ask is that you add a credit somewhere with the blog address if you wouldn’t mind. We don’t get over that side of the river as often as we should but it’s always worth the extra miles.
Hi Marie,
It’s some time since we last wrote to each other but that doesn’t mean that I’ve not been following your blog over the last few years with interest especially your photos and comments about the Itchen Navigation.
Recently, I have been looking at updating and expanding some of the pages on the Canal Society website and was hoping you would have no objection to my including four more of your pictures on pages about the Navigation in the Winchester area. Could you please contact me about this?
Very best wishes
Peter Oates
Hi Peter. Great to hear from you. I would be happy for you to use my photos.
Hi Marie:
love your photos of the Holyrood Estate murals. I’m working on a history of the 19thc Southampton book trades and would love to feature your photos of them on our website and in any talks. Possible?
cheers
Sydney
Hi. That would be fine but I’d appreciate it if you mentioned the blog or gave a link if possible.
Hey Marie, I would love to speak to you about some of your articles. Can’t find your address, please email gareth@discoverhamble.uk, thanks!
Hi
I have sent you an email
Hi Marie I’m writing a book based on the Green Garden Consultancy which I want to use to celebrate all the characters and wildlife of Southampton. It’s called ‘Habitat’, about a man who gives up his job to create habitats for wildlife in people’s back gardens and in the process meets some wonderful characters. It’s a fictional book and the aim is to use it to educate and inspire people to create their own green gardens and houses.
I also want to share my love of Southampton, with all its diversity of people and habitats. Your blog similarly celebrates the wildlife and areas of Southampton. It might be nice to meet up and chat and share ideas.
Cheers
Denise
Hi Denise. Apologies for the late reply. As you c. Tell fro the lack of recent posts I’ve been quite busy with other projects recently. Your books sounds interesting and I’d love to meet up. I’m hoping to have some free time late this month so will try to contact you then and arrange something.
Hi Marie, this is interesting stuff. Please can I send the article on titanic people to my grandson whose school in Andover is doing a project on it? I live in St Denys so he was interested to know the connection. Thanks
Of course. Please do. I’m glad you found it interesting.
Morning!
Googling the answer to the query about the mysterious wooden figures in Sholing lead me to one of your pages and a comment indicating they were a memorial installation.
May I share this link http://www.iwalkalone.co.uk/?p=30146 on Southampton Heritage Photos please?
Please feel free.
Morning, My name is Sue Bishop, I am retired and live in Milford on Sea, I have a request please may I save your image of Woodside House owned by Col. Rooke, and share it with Milford on Sea Positive News, we are a group that enjoy discussing old photo’s. Would really appreciate it.
Kind regards Sue.
Please do. Apologies for the late reply
Hi. This is great information. I am currently preparing a talk on Tankerville Chamberlayne for the Yatton Local History Society which I am due to present in early April and would love to use your photos of Weston Grove and the Rolling Mill and your summary of the compulsory purchase story if you are happy for me to do so?
Apologies for the delay in replying. I hope your presentation went well.
Hi, I have a relative who was lost on the Titanic, Henry/Harry Dennis Witt of Southampton. I would like to add your story to his record on Ancestry, with accreditation. Would that be OK please?
Please feel free. I’m more than happy.
Hi Marie,
I have been researching our family history and have discovered from the 1901 Census that my wife’s grandmother, great grandmother and great great grandmother were living with another family at 74 Cheese Hill Street in Winchester while her great-grandfather was away in the Army in South Africa. I couldn’t figure out why my searched came up with Chesil Street instead of Cheese Hill Street but thanks to you the riddle is solved! I would like to copy your article to add to our family record (not for publication anywhere) to add to the context for subsequent generations. Hope that will be OK? Wish I’d seen this walk before we visited Winchester last year! Hopefully we will go back some time and do it.
Hi Simon. Glad to have solved a mystery for you and please feel free to add the article to your record.
Hello Marie, You and I share the same initials and connections to The Flower Roads and Daisy Dip.
I lived in Iris Road in the 1940/50’s I’m old now, but with many memories of those days and the wonderful people that made up that community. I have been working on my own biography , ‘Flower Girl from the Flower Roads’. which is just a collection of memories from those times. I feature some of these memories in the Forwards of my two published books, The Book Of Rhododendrons pub.David & Charles. and the self published book The Majical World of John Clare’ (into its 2nd edition) The Flower Roads and a wonderful Headmistress Marcia Gattrel, helped make my life. I featured a botanical study of R. ponticum as a frontis in the Rhodie Book, and tell of it’s influence of it when I collected it from ‘The Copse’ as we called it in those days. (I live at Exbury, and was their resident artist for 20 years. Best wishes Marianna Kneller
I must look out for those books. They sound as if they would be interesting.
I really enjoy your walks, there is an old building at the Junction of Northam Road and Brittania Road, that is currently a car trader . It always intrigues us. I looked in the gazetteer for around the 1900’s and found a reference to Magdala House?
Thank you, I shall have to look into this.
Really enjoy your posts. We are new to Southampton but keen on Local History of which there is much here. Just read the St Mary’s street issue.
Hi Marie,
I’ve just discovered ” I Walk Alone” after researching the Chessel area of Southampton. (I’m slightly gobsmacked at the extent of your local knowledge. It’s fantastic!!) My own research comes about because I have recently started a photography project which aims – by end of 2025 – to achieve a comprehensive record of Southampton in the 21st century, using particular reference points in each of the 17 electoral wards in the City. The Archive Record Office in Southampton have agreed to keep the completed project for posterity. I’m sure that your work would be very helpful to me and I thought now is the best time to ask if I might use that on occasion to assist me. I will of course credit you with anything that I might use.
Keep up the great work
Colin
Hi Colin, sorry for the delay in replying. I’ve been away and also working on the release of my next book. Your project sounds interesting. Please feel free to use what you need. I’d love to hear how you get on, too.
Hi Marie,
Thank you for your reply. Feel free to reply to me on the email address I provided. Then I can send you small samples of what I’ve taken. I’ve been for a photo-shoot around Weston this morning and was researching the tower blocks on my return. Your website popped up for another browse. It is brilliant!
Thank you. I’ve been away but I’ll get to it soon.
Hi Marie
I am reaching out in the capacity of a volunteer with ST Denys Community Centre. A revmap of the current website has been underway for some time. AS part of that process I have been sourcing images related to St Denys and came upon your site, which seem really on point!
In theory, how would you feel about the revamped website potentially using images you have taken to reflect the area in general?
Of course you would receive a credit as the source on the new site, should any material be used!
You can see the (very) dated old site we are in the process of redesigning in the link associated with this comment submission.
Many Thanks
Alan
Please feel free to use any photos you need.