This lively etching by Thomas Rowlandson depicts the bustling, chaotic energy of Portsmouth Point, a major naval port in early 19th-century England. The scene captures sailors, dockside workers, women, and onlookers in a riot of activity as ships prepare for departure or arrival. Rowlandson’s...

Dated 10th April 1968.

Broad Street, Old Portsmouth in the 1920s or 1930s.

Located on Broad St, Old Portsmouth.

Early 1900s.

Photograph by S. Cribb. Text reads: "High Tide - Broad St. The Venice of Portsmouth. Xmas 1912 Scenes will be remembered"

To the left of the Bridge Tavern are unloading gantries and storage facilities for the large quantities of coal that came into Portsmouth by sea.

Shows the Still and West country house.

Image scanned from the Batsford Colour Book of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight by John Norwood, published 1975. The image is by A.F Kersting. In the left background is Quebec House, built by public subscription in 1754 as a bathing house, with the harbour beyond.

Shows the old Town Hall when it became a museum until hit by German bombs in 1941. Year unknown circa between 1879-1941. Reproduction by Hampshire County Library. Kindly submitted by Karl Bailey.

Year unknown.

Year unknown.

Photo by Martin Hulbert, reproduced with kind permission. Taken between 1973-1974