Author Archives: Bill

I’m sorry that there are so many pictures. The one of the glove and the sweet wrapper in the Cockle pond are one of those pictures that you take not knowing how it’s going to look on the bigger screen, but I like that all of them. The light in the mornings has been lovely,Continue reading “588 – A week in images”

It’s not because I’m political, well I am political, but I’m not going to talk about that, it’s because I am interested in what is happening in Gosport. This is a re-kindled interest, the last time I went to a council meeting must be at least 3 – 4 years ago, in fact it wasContinue reading “587 – I go to a Council Meeting”

I bought a selfie stick. I found that the gadget I bought at Lidl’s didn’t work out the way I wanted, it’s down to me, nothing wrong with the kit. I wasn’t comfortable with the way I was holding the unit with the phone attached, I was finding it difficult to maintain holding hte cameraContinue reading “586 – A Selfie Stick”

Wow (sorry for starting with that), but it’s just to ask how bad was last night’s post? Pretty dreadful, and I felt really bad about. I had started it very early in the evening, but wasn’t happy with it, so deleted the two additional blocks I had written with the intention of coming back toContinue reading “585 – Last Night, and an Adventure”

It’s a bit like being driven. I haven’t yet got the Vlogging thing out of my system. I have only just begun. Last weeks thing where I went down to the waterfront and sat with my microphone went very well. I also stood on the high street today with my DSLR camera in full view.Continue reading “584 – It’s something I need to do”

Sometimes, when you can’t think of what to write the thing to do is to sit down and write whatever comes in to your head. The Gosport Society meeting last Wednesday is the first time I’ve been out in the evening for quite a while. I think over the last couple of years I haveContinue reading “583 – Friday Writing”

Just bear with me on this one. This is a picture of Rowlands Pharmacy taken in May 2017, it’s one of over a hundred pictures that I took of the shops in Stokes Road, as I was starting to get on with my project of mapping the history of change in the street. Here’s theContinue reading “582 – Stokes Road”

I probably found out about the Gosport Society through an accidental link or reference on the Internet, this was probably about three years ago now. The thing that attracted me was the list of events they were advertising, a series of talks that looked fascinating. I got about a years worth in before Covid hit.Continue reading “581 – The Gosport Society”

What is it I like about going down to the waterfront in Portsmouth? It’s not as if you’ll see hundreds of different ships coming in or going out. Little boats and big boats come and go, without any particular frequency, except perhaps the ferries; the gosport ferry going from side to side, the Brittany ferries.Continue reading “580 – Down to the Sea”

This is the old British Telecom Telephone Exchange building. It is the last building on the southern side at the western end of Stokes Road. That is its only significance in the incomplete project. Around 2010 I became involved in a project in Cambridgeshire called the Cambridge Community Archive Network (CCAN). The project is intendedContinue reading “579 – An incomplete Project”