Southampton

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Southampton

Southampton's location. (TV: Army of Ghosts)

Southampton was a city on the south-coast of England. (TV: Army of Ghosts, TV: Spyfall) To the north of Southampton was Oxford, to the north-east was London and to the east was Brighton. It shared a coastline with the English Channel. (TV: Spyfall)

History

Southampton had its own docks. (COMIC: Bat Attack!)

The Ninth Doctor visited Southampton in April 1912 where he befriended the Daniels family, who took him in as he lay unconscious. Later, the Doctor stole their tickets for their planned trip, (AUDIO: Battle Scars) which would have been aboard the doomed Titanic. (TV: Rose) The Titanic departed Southampton on 10 April 1912 on its fateful voyage. (PROSE: The Time Travellers' Almanac)

In 1924, River Song and Bertie Potts took a steamer from Southampton to Constantinople. (AUDIO: The Boundless Sea)

The Queen Mary set sail from Southampton to New York City in 1963. (PROSE: Ghost Ship)

Henry Palmerdale was on his way to Southampton in his steam yacht when it crashed into Fang Rock. (TV: Horror of Fang Rock)

During the ghost shift craze of 2007, ghosts, actually Cybermen from Pete's World, were forecast as appearing in Southampton. (TV: Army of Ghosts)

In 2009, calls to the emergency services from Southampton suggested that children were pointing at the sky. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three)