THIS “new” aerial view of part of the Lordshill housing area, taken back in July, 1969 shows the almost completed first sector of the housing project in the top right of the photograph along with the large new roundabout on the Romsey Road, with the new spine on each side.

The relatively untouched central area in the photograph constituted the second sector of the building development on which site work would begin later that same year.

This bold concept for a huge housing estate on the north-west approaches was now taking definite shape, but there was still much more to do before this new “town” would be firmly established between Millbrook and Lordswood.