This image is scanned from a book titled Portsmouth Past and Present by Anthony Triggs.
QUEEN STREET - 1900: This photograph by F J Mortimer, was taken in April, 1900, and captures the scene as Queen Street prepared to welcome H.M.S Powerful on her return from the Boer War. The ladder, in the centre of the picture, is resting against the Royal Sailors’ Home Club, which was opened in 1851. (BBC Hulton Picture Library)
