Portsmouth, Artist's Corner, The Sally Port c.1965
Photo ref: P100065
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Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs. The Round Tower and neighbouring Square Tower squat on the old curtain wall, acting as a permanent reminder of the city's need to defend itself from enemy attack. To the right lies Broad Street.

Memories of Portsmouth, Artist's Corner, the Sally Port c1965

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Born in Portsmouth 1947. Happy memories of the early 60's. 'Manhattan' Coffee bar Palmerston Road. 'Birdcage' Osborne Road and also 'Delmonico's', And the never to be forgotten R & B venue 'Kimballs'. Jennifer Davies nee Ford.
I was born in Portsmouth in 1933. My family and I lived first in Lyndhurst Road - about which I don't recall too much - then later in Merrivale Road. I remember very clearly where Merrivale joined Copnor Road. When you turned left, there was a military barracks on the left and, opposite it, a sports ground. At age 4, I was enrolled in a little privately-run pre-school not far away, I ...see more
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.