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Around Portsmouth
This small church on the outskirts of Portsmouth dates from 1872, and the north aisle from 1875.
The Promenade 1892 It was one man, Thomas Owen, a land and property speculator, who developed this part of Portsea Island, transforming it into a residential suburb of Portsmouth.
Portsmouth's magnificent Guildhall, one of Hampshire's stateliest civic buildings, was opened in 1890 by the Prince of Wales on behalf of his mother Queen Victoria, who was said to be alarmed by the endless
Chalton Down Mill was a brick tower windmill located on a remote hill top overlooking the main London to Portsmouth road.
Richard I built the first dock at Portsmouth in the late 12th century.
It was later auctioned at Portsmouth and broken up.
This former coaching inn stands on London Road, the old London to Portsmouth road.
The photograph must therefore date from the summer of 1968, when Alec Rose, a 59-year- old greengrocer from Portsmouth, completed his single-handed voyage around the world in his yacht
H G Wells walked from Portsmouth to Harting to meet his mother coming from this church.
The town developed around the Old Portsmouth Road over Bagshot Heath from the early 19th century, and most of the buildings in this picture are Victorian.
Liphook expanded as a village thanks to the London-Portsmouth road and the arrival of the railway in 1859.
The houses of Clapham Common North Side, part of the busy A3 London to Portsmouth Road, are visible through the trees.
This pub was owned by Brickwood, the Portsmouth brewery.
A small village with a common on the Portsmouth to Guildford main road near the Hampshire border.
The A3 London to Portsmouth road crosses the Farnham to Chichester road here, and then, as now, the crossroads are traffic-light- controlled.
Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.
Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.
Note the old signpost beside him, indicating that Fareham and Portsmouth are 8 and 16 miles away and Eastleigh and Winchester 6½ and 10½ miles.
The houses of Clapham Common North Side, part of the busy A3 London to Portsmouth Road, are visible through the trees.
