Mayfair GardensThe land now occupied by Mayfair Gardens has an extensive history. Once home to a large medieval estate, the land was used for sport and recreation throughout most of the 20th century before being demolished to make way for the residential buildings and gardens you can see today.
Mayfair Gardens, Avington House and Beaulieu House were constructed.
The Mayfair Top Rank Suite, bowling alley and ice rink were demolished in the late 1980s.
The Mayfair Top Rank Suite opened in the mid-1960’s on the land now occupied by Mayfair Gardens
The Sportsdome was opened by Charles Knott and included an ice rink, bowling alley and roller skating rink on the land now occupied by Mayfair Gardens
Southampton’s first ice rink was destroyed during the Blitz of 1940
Banister’s Court House was sold to Charles Knott, which was demolished to make way for a speedway and greyhound stadium
The information for the timeline above has been obtained from Sotonopedia and Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Information was summarised and condensed to fit a timeline format required to tell the history of the land now occupied by Mayfair Gardens. The timeline above (only) is licensed under the same Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.