Spartan. @ The Clarence Tavern
Spartan. At the Clarence Tavern in Gosport.
Ep 1 - Portsmouth On Film - Southsea
Old footage from days gone by, including areas like Canoe Lake, Southsea Seafront, Clarence Pier Funfair.
Including Tour De France and Buses on the Common.
Book full of old photographs of Portsmouth is now available.
'Portsmouth From Family Archives'
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Waterstones, Commercial Rd
Southsea Gallery & Bonzo Studio, Albert Rd
Victory Morris singing we'll roll
Victory Morris Men are joined by The Men of Wight in an end of evening sing along at The Clarence Tavern in Gosport Hampshire.
Killer Storm Katie: Hopes fade for father feared drowned while saving his son when their kayak...
Killer Storm Katie: Hopes fade for father feared drowned while saving his son when their kayak capsized as motorist is killed after plunging into a lake from a 70ft bridge as 106mph winds batter UK.
Hopes are fading for the father washed away while kayaking with his son this afternoon and it is feared he will become the second victim of Storm Katie.
Boats and a helicopter were used in the frantic search for the man, who capsized with his son and dog in the boat at around 1.40pm today on the River Wey in Guildford, but more than ten hours after capsizing, he is now feared drowned.
Onlookers said the kayak, which had his son and their dog inside, was 'being dragged around like a bottle very fast' in the river. They described how the boy, aged 12 or 13, made it to the bank but his father vanished under the water.
Earlier today, a man was killed when his car ploughed through the barrier and off a 70ft bridge into the River Don after a crash with other vehicles on the A1M, as Storm Katie brought winds of up to 106mph to Britain. His body was later recovered.
More than 130 flights were diverted or cancelled as passengers described terrifying aborted landings. One passenger died in their seat while a flight was diverted from Heathrow to Manchester because of the terrible conditions.
The Port of Dover suspended all shipping temporarily and other ferry services were disrupted.
It comes as around 100,000 homes were hit by power cuts as lines were damaged by falling trees and flooding.
Thousands of properties were damaged, with roofs being ripped off and walls and fences toppled. Many cars were crushed by falling trees and other debris.
High winds in Greenwich, south London, bent a crane in half and nearby residents were evacuated.
A pub roof in Battersea, south London, was reduced to rubble and a large section of roof was ripped off flats in Wimbledon.
Two roofs on multi-million pound properties at the Royal Clarence Marina - where the average value of a property is £400,000 - where blown off and residents evacuated as the storm bought winds of 70mph to the southern city.
Sussex Police said it had received some 600 weather-related calls and sections of Brighton’s historic West Pier broke off during the storm.
Southern Electric Power Distribution said more than 80,000 homes across the South of England had power cuts, and UK Power Network said 19,000 of its households were affected. Last night around 27,000 homes remained without power.
Power cuts and flooding also forced the closure of Highclere Castle in Hampshire – the location where Downton Abbey was filmed.
Southeastern and East Midland Trains both reported delays and the Dartford River Crossing, the M48 Severn Bridge and the A38 Tamar Bridge in Cornwall were closed.
The storm hit late on Sunday and reached its peak yesterday, when wind speeds of 106mph were recorded over the Needles on the Isle of Wight. The Environment Agency issued 131 flood alerts and 24 more serious flood warnings, mainly in the Midlands and the South of England.
'The boy, who was around 12 or 13 years, was rescued but the others just went under. The man was really struggling to keep his head up but then just disappeared.
'It was absolutely awful to see, we couldn't do anything.'
The fast flowing river had grown in power after 24 hours of rainfall and it is believed that the water may have proven too much for the man to cope with.
Onlookers have now spoke of their horror after seeing the oarsman capsize.
Christopher Jackson said on Facebook that he was passing by five minutes before the man went overboard.
He said: 'I heard a dad telling his son how to paddle in passing. We could see the canoe, it was being dragged around like a bottle.'
Irene Shettle added: 'A friend has just reported that she saw it happen.
Scenes of destruction greeted many people in the south of England today, but in Scotland it was an almost idyllic picture of early summer after Storm Katie passed around the country without incident.
Katie was the eleventh storm to be named since last autumn and arrived in Britain overnight, after being blown across the Atlantic in just 30 hours by 200mph winds.
It came after a two-day washout, with strong winds and heavy rain hitting the UK on Saturday and Sunday.
S O Simple Ft 1984Music - On My Way (Official Video)
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1946 southsea miniature steam rail
8mm cine footage taken on a family holiday at Southsea of the miniature railway
Hatfield Road Cemetery toilets: St Albans, Hertfordshire HL DMs & LL Standard
This is the first high level of the month considering Green Park was a revisit and this is my first Hertfordshire film. A standard cemetery and although not as exciting as the one in Aldershot from last month, it has a HL DM in black in both the men's, the ladies' with two HLTP & a LL in the disabled.
Rating: 9/10
Council: St Albans City Council
The Blitz
The Blitz (shortened from German 'Blitzkrieg', lightning war) was the period of sustained strategic bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Between 7 September 1940 and 21 May 1941 there were major aerial raids (attacks in which more than 100 tonnes of high explosives were dropped) on 16 British cities. Over a period of 267 days (almost 37 weeks), London was attacked 71 times, Birmingham, Liverpool and Plymouth eight times, Bristol six, Glasgow five, Southampton four, Portsmouth and Hull three, and there was also at least one large raid on another eight cities. This was a result of a rapid escalation starting on 24 August 1940, when night bombers aiming for RAF airfields drifted off course and accidentally destroyed several London homes, killing civilians, combined with the UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill's immediate response of bombing Berlin on the following night.
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Portsmouth | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:04:57 1 History
00:05:06 1.1 Early history
00:06:40 1.2 Norman to Tudor
00:12:14 1.3 Stuart to Georgian
00:17:39 1.4 Industrial Revolution to Victorian
00:21:23 1.5 Edwardian to Second World War
00:25:20 1.6 Post-war
00:30:36 2 Geography
00:36:00 2.1 Climate
00:37:41 3 Demography
00:40:19 4 Government and politics
00:42:47 5 Economy
00:47:32 6 Culture
00:50:43 7 Literature
00:53:13 8 Education
00:55:54 9 Landmarks
01:00:46 10 Gunwharf Quays
01:03:02 11 Southsea
01:06:06 12 Religion
01:09:14 13 Sport
01:12:07 14 Transport and communications
01:12:17 14.1 Ferries
01:13:55 14.2 Buses
01:14:39 14.3 Railways
01:15:32 14.4 Airport
01:16:47 14.5 Canal
01:18:27 14.6 Possible public transport projects
01:19:19 15 Media
01:22:04 16 Notable residents
01:26:06 17 See also
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Portsmouth ( (listen)) is a port city in Hampshire, England, with a total population of 205,400 residents. The city of Portsmouth is nicknamed Pompey and is mainly built on Portsea Island, a flat, low-lying island measuring 24 square kilometres (9 sq mi) in area, just off the south-east coast of Hampshire. Portsmouth is the only island city in the United Kingdom, and is the only city whose population density exceeds that of London.Portsmouth is located 70 miles (110 km) south-west of London and 19 miles (31 km) south-east of Southampton. With the surrounding towns of Gosport, Fareham, Havant and Waterlooville, Portsmouth forms the eastern half of the South Hampshire metropolitan area, which includes Southampton and Eastleigh in the western half.
Portsmouth's history can be traced back to Roman times. A significant naval port for centuries, Portsmouth has the world's oldest dry dock. In the sixteenth century, Portsmouth was England's first line of defence during the French invasion of 1545. By the early nineteenth century, the world's first mass production line was set up in Portsmouth Dockyard's Block Mills, making it the most industrialised site in the world and birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Portsmouth was also the most heavily fortified town in the world, and was considered the world's greatest naval port at the height of the British Empire throughout Pax Britannica. Defences known as the Palmerston Forts were built around Portsmouth in 1859 in anticipation of another invasion from continental Europe.
In 1926, Portsmouth was officially elevated in status from a town to a city. The motto Heaven's Light Our Guide, a reference to the city's eight-pointed star and crescent moon emblem, was registered to the City of Portsmouth in 1929. During the Second World War, the city of Portsmouth was bombed extensively in the Portsmouth Blitz, which resulted in the deaths of 930 people. In 1944, Portsmouth was the pivotal embarkation point for the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944. In 1982, a large proportion of the task force dispatched to liberate the Falkland Islands deployed from the city's naval base. Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia left the city to oversee the transfer of Hong Kong in 1997, which marked for many the end of the empire. In 1997, Portsmouth became a Unitary Authority, with Portsmouth City Council gaining powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined, responsibilities previously held by Hampshire County Council.
Portsmouth is one of the world's best known ports. HMNB Portsmouth is considered to be the home of the Royal Navy and is home to two-thirds of the UK's surface fleet. The city is home to some famous ships, including HMS Warrior, the Tudor carrack Mary Rose and Horatio Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory (the world's oldest naval ship still in commission). The former HMS Vernon naval shore establishment has been redeveloped as a retail park known as Gunwharf Quays. Portsmouth is am ...
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