Electricity Transformer House, Ocean Terminal, Southampton (SOU1586)
Southampton City Council, 2013. https://doi.org/10.5284/1018073. How to cite using this DOI
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Primary contact
Dr
Andy
Russel
Archaeology Unit Manager, Ancient Monuments Officer, and War Memorials Officer
Southampton City Council Archaeology Unit
18 Melbourne Street
Southampton
SO14 5FB
Tel: +44 (0) 2380 832022
Resource identifiers
- ADS Collection: 1181
- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1018073
- How to cite using this DOI
Introduction
The project was an archaeological building record, to level 2, of the former Electricity Transformer House, Ocean Road, Eastern Docks, Southampton on behalf of Associated British Ports. The building was constructed in 1950 as part of the Ocean Terminal complex that served the ocean going liners. The main Terminal building was demolished in 1983. The transformer house was built in a streamlined Art Deco style. Three of the original transformer units survived at ground floor level. A secondary use of the building was to provide public access to the Terminal by way of a pair of stairs that lead to a first floor bridge across the road and railway to the first floor of the Terminal building. The stairwells were provided with two toilets at first floor level.
The physical archive has been deposited at Southampton City Museum with the accession/site code SOU1586.
