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Painted postcard of Places in Portsmouth & Southsea

Scanned from Havant - Seen and Remembered by Geoffrey Salter and Derek Dine, Hampshire County Library. Published 1979. 'The Dolphin Hotel, on the left, stood here from the early 1800s and was known as the principal inn Havant. Stage coaches called daily en route from Brighton to Portsmouth...

Young girl admires Southsea Model Village of a farmyard. Gifford Series.

Pompey won the F.A. Cup on 17th May 2008 and toured round Portsmouth the next day 18th.

From top left to bottom right: Roman Baths. The Abbey. Holburne Museum. Royal Crescent. The Circus. Pulteney Bridge. The Abbey. Northumberland Place. Aerial View (West Air Photography)

Fun for the family: Table Tennis, Swing Ball, Skittles. Also Bowls, Swimming, Squash, Badminton. Cafeteria, Bar. Open every day.

After suffering damage during the war, the Guildhall was reopened by the Queen in 1959. Modern development makes an identical view impossible to how it looked back in 1930, but in the square the tram shelter has gone, as have the trees and the Guildhall minarets.

This photograph was scanned from a book titled Portsmouth Past and Present by Anthony Triggs. This picture was taken at Easter of 1930, and shows the popular fair on the hill slopes.

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...