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Southsea, Hovercraft c.1965
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About six years before this photograph was taken, designer Christopher Cockerell was turning a drawing board dream into reality with his invention of the hovercraft, a revolutionary new concept in passenger travel. The Suffolk boat builder took out 56 patents on the design and the first experimental hovercraft crossed the English Channel in 1959.

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A Selection of Memories from Southsea

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Southsea

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This is about the place on the pebbled Southsea Beach where our family always established their bit of 'turf'. There was a whole ritual to it ...setting up the blanket so it wouldn't get blown out to sea..the baskets of delicious ham sandwiches and the bottles of home made ginger ale ! My step parents always had The Times or a Penguin book at hand whilst my step grandfather, Pop, smoked his pipe and Mum, knitted. ...see more
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