Southsea, Victoria Barracks 1898
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The Sands and Pier 1921 Southsea is not without its literary associ- ations. H.G.Wells and Rudyard Kipling spent their formative years locally, and Arthur Conan Doyle established a med- ical practice in the town in 1882. He wrote his first Sherlock Holmes story 'A Study in Scarlet' here in 1886, and even- tually left Southsea in 1890.

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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