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Port Solent maps
Historic maps of Port Solent and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Port Solent maps
Port Solent photos
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Portchester| Portsmouth| Drayton| Southwick| Purbrook| Farlington| Gosport| Southsea| North Boarhunt| Fareham| Denmead| Alverstoke| Waterlooville| Langstone| Newtown| Cowplain| Lee-On-The-Solent| Stubbington| Havant| Stokes Bay| Wickham| Hill Head| Warblington| Hambledon| Titchfield| Hayling Island| Horndean| Shedfield| Rowland's Castle| Blendworth
Port Solent area books
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Memories of Port Solent
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Hampshire memories
Getting Married
When I moved with my family from North Boarhunt we came here to Portchester. Little was I to know, but I would be getting married in the beautiful church in the castle grounds. It was a lovely setting, with the lych gate and castle as a back drop. My husband-to-be had been in the choir a few years before and so when we came out married, the choir held up their prayer books to make an arch. I have moved on since then and now live in Southampton but Portchester is still in my heart.
Marriage
We moved to Portchester because of my father's job (He worked on Portsdown Hill) and in 1967 I married my husband at St Mary's church in Portchester. I have fond memorys of the church as I was confirmed in it and spent my teenage years attending the Youth Club. I can remember one occasion when Acker Bilk and his jazzman played in the Village? Hall, & this was well attended. I don't think we had many well known people at events before this. My second sister also married in St Mary's Church.
I have now moved on and currently live with my husband in Cheshire. Our two children are now married with children of their own
Ferry Slipway
This slipway was built in 1960. Prior to that time ferries left from Portsmouth Point.
Swimming at Sallyport
The outfall from the power station made the water warm here so that we swam all year round - not for those who didn't know the currents. The visitors were amazed at our apparent hardiness, or perhaps foolhardiness.
Art Exhibition, Old Portsmouth.
My grandparents Bert & Dorrie Hedger started this amature exhibition in about 1965, and carried on until my grandfather died in 1982. I recognise several of the paintings as being by my mum Rita Grant, as I was taken down there every weekend from the age of three.
THE MUDLARKS
We used to go down to Sallyport from 1954 -1958 ..there were a lot of local 'urchins' called the 'Mudlarks' who would stand in the knee deep, sloppy black mud below the pier to the ferry when the tide was out and people would throw them pennies which they had to find in the mud.They'd end up covered from head to foot. A lot of them had great characters and had developed great 'carny' skills to get people to toss them money.
My step aunt, Linda Goldsmith knew most of these kids 'cos she taught them at the nearby elementary school.
THE BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD
This was to me, as a young lad, one of the best places in the whole world!
There was nothing more appealing to me than being at this great vantage point for the Portsmouth Dockyard. I could have stayed there all day watching our British Navy aircraft carriers, battleships, submarines and cruisers contrasted to the masts of our most famous ship of all time, the HMS Victory, watching the ferries plying back and forth to Gosport, feeling the spray from the often rough seas pounding the seawall and blasting up into the air.
Being on the Point was like being on the prow of a ship. I want so badly to go back there and hope someday I can.
My step grandfather, Goldsmith, was a senior man in the dockyard during WW2.
He would have been thrilled to see Pompey win the 2008 FA Cup!!!
