Old portsmouth

Old pictures of Old portsmouth

  1. High Street

  2. Round Tower

  3. Old Sallyport, Hot Walls

  4. Grammar School, High Street, Portsmouth

  5. Junction St. Thomas and Highbury Street

  6. High Street, Old Portsmouth. Viewed from Square Tower

  7. The Old Town Hall and Dolphin Pub

  8. Unknown man outside John Pounds' shop, Highbury Street, Old Portsmouth.

    John Pounds (June 17, 1766 – January 1, 1839) was a teacher and altruist born in Portsmouth, and the man most responsible for the creation of the concept of Ragged schools. After Pounds' death, Thomas Guthrie (often credited with the creation of Ragged Schools) wrote his Plea for Ragged Schools...

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