Places
27 places found.
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- Portsmouth, Hampshire
- Southsea, Hampshire
- Drayton, Hampshire (near Havant)
- Cosham, Hampshire
- Widley, Hampshire
- Eastney, Hampshire
- Portsmouth, Yorkshire
- Old Portsmouth, Hampshire
- Kingston, Hampshire (near Portsmouth)
- Portsea Island, Hampshire
- Farlington, Hampshire
- North End, Hampshire (near Portsmouth)
- Landport, Hampshire
- Milton, Hampshire
- Highbury, Hampshire
- Somers Town, Hampshire
- Portsea, Hampshire
- Baffins, Hampshire
- Fratton, Hampshire
- Anchorage Park, Hampshire
- Port Solent, Hampshire
- Wymering, Hampshire
- Tipner, Hampshire
- Hilsea, Hampshire
- Paulsgrove, Hampshire
- Stamshaw, Hampshire
- Copnor, Hampshire
Photos
222 photos found. Showing results 61 to 80.
Maps
118 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 73 to 2.
Memories
129 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.
Our Wartime Stay In Horndean
My parents rented a converted railway carriage in Bulls Copse Lane for a time during the war. I and my sister and brother loved it and were sorry when we had to move back to Portsmouth. I went first to the village school ...Read more
A memory of Horndean by
Horses At The Brewery
My great great grandfather, Walter Churchill, worked at the Brewery for years looking after the dray horses. I do not know whether he actually went out with the horses to deliver the beer. He lived at 45 Gigant Street in ...Read more
A memory of Salisbury by
All The Fun Of The Fair
Who remembers the travelling fun fair that came to Blackfield in the 1960s? Did you go to Blackfield Junior school? What about skating on the frozen Gravel pits at Holbury in the winter 1962/3/4 or the Esso Cinema? or the ...Read more
A memory of Holbury in 1960 by
Place Of My Birth
I was born in Gosport in 1959. As the daughter of a sailor we left a couple of times but always returned. I married at St Marys Alverstoke in 1980. I have very fond, maybe a little rose-tinted, memories of ...Read more
A memory of Gosport by
Happy Days
Mary Edwards was my sister, she would have been 15 at the time. We lived in Sandown Road, Esher, in a house called Madresfield, where I was born. Sandown Road was a private road, off the A3 Portsmouth Road, opposite Sandown Park and next ...Read more
A memory of Esher in 1945 by
Memories Of Downton
My family moved to The Research Station at Forest Road, Redlynch at the end of the war, and from there to a house in Moot Lane, Downton. My father (Oliver) was in the Royal Artillery during the 1914 - 1918 war, and my eldest ...Read more
A memory of Whiteparish by
Trevor Young
Hello there, my name is Lisa, I am 35 years old and my grandfather Trevor Young used to work down the mines. His parents were Gilbert and Clara Young, nee Orchard. I think I'm right in saying saying that Grandad was born in 1926 and ...Read more
A memory of Six Bells by
Dancing At Neros
In 1977 I was the Wrigleys rep, I was 21. I stayed in Hayling Island Holiday Inn, being from the Watford area. I was in charge of Fine Fare, Southsea. I used to drive into Portsmouth and dance at Neros. Great Memories. My week ...Read more
A memory of Portsmouth in 1977 by
Living In East Butterwick
January 2010 I came back from spending Xmas and New Year in Portsmouth. It was still snowing. I had to stay indoors most of the time because I couldn't cope well with walking in the snow. When I had to go to the ...Read more
A memory of East Butterwick in 2010
Dunstaffnage The War Years 1942 45
In 1942 aged 5 due to my father being a shipwright in the Portsmouth Dockyard he was transferred to a satellite dockyard at Dunstaffnage where we stayed as a family until the war finished and we then moved back to ...Read more
A memory of Oban in 1942 by
Captions
100 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.
Between 1903 and 1935 Waterlooville and Portsmouth were linked by tram.
Overlooking Portsmouth Harbour and fanned by sea breezes, the church lies inside a Roman fort, which is thought to have been built towards the end of the 3rd century AD.
King's Head was built in 1733; not originally a public house, it had a cellar to store stalls for an annual fair held nearby.The Rising Sun on top of the pub sign was a trademark of Brickwoods (Portsmouth
King's Head was built in 1733; not originally a public house, it had a cellar to store stalls for an annual fair held nearby.The Rising Sun on top of the pub sign was a trademark of Brickwoods (Portsmouth
In 1840 he engaged a young Portsmouth architect, Augustus F Livesay, and gave £20,000 for rebuilding the parish church.
Clanfield sits in a valley to the west of the A3, 12 miles north of Portsmouth, and 6 miles south of Petersfield.
A small village with a common on the Portsmouth to Guildford main road near the Hampshire border.
The pub sign is for the Ship, always, it seems, a locals' watering hole as opposed to the other inns and cafes that have catered for travellers on the London to Portsmouth road.
This view, along the Portsmouth Road, formerly the A3, shows the late Victorian expansion of Kingston past Surbiton.
Liphook expanded as a village thanks to the London to Portsmouth road and the arrival of the railway in 1859.
Continuing north-east along Portsmouth Road we reach Godalming, a market town since 1300, its centre now by-passed.
Roman builders mixed crushed seashells from Portsmouth Harbour with clay from the creek to produce bricks for the fort.
unmade roadway in front of the camera would be taking her life in her hands were she to attempt such a casual progress today, when modern traffic thunders up this hill on its way to Cobham along the old Portsmouth
When the library was built, a bronze statue, 'Boy Eating Apple' by Percy Portsmouth, was sited outside.
The plastered section of this long building was known as Webbs Cottages, and the southern range, Portsmouth Cottages.
The Royal Marines were moved to Portsmouth.
This broad expanse of the old Portsmouth Road is lined with pollarded trees.
This is where, in all weathers you would find Fred 'Benzo' Kimber selling the Portsmouth Evening News.
These refreshment and dining rooms, on the corner of the Portsmouth Road and Copse Road, provided a popular stopping place for cyclists, particularly since the rear of the premises housed a cycle repair
The Rising Sun on top of the pub sign was a trademark of Brickwoods (Portsmouth) brewery.
Some of the two hundred navvies engaged in building the Portsmouth Railway line were drinking here late one evening, when Donaldson attempted to enforce closing time, and was struck down by a blow from
Golf enthusiasts can become members of the Haywards Heath golf club and use their 18-hole golf course situated just off Portsmouth Lane on the borders with Lindfield, whilst cricketers can still
In the 18th century, The Red Lion was a popular stopping point on the London to Portsmouth road before the stage coaches began the long haul up to the wild and treacherous wastes of Hindhead Common, the
Pink's the Family Grocer gives testimony to the the business empire of Alderman Pink of Portsmouth.
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Memories (129)
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Maps (118)
