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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”

This building went up in the 1880’s. The shop owner at the bottom was a taylor, he asked for these frontages (I don’t know what the proper name for these are). They were mentioned in the book of Gosport. Or, how about this one; This one was also mentioned, with no explanation available as toContinue reading “578 – Well, that was interesting.”

This building is located at the western end of Stokes Road. It took me a while to find out that until 2017 it was one of Gosport’s two United Reform Church (URC), like any history it’s not straightforward. Every so often over the last few years, my interest in the building would be re-kindled, andContinue reading “577 – Gosport URC Stokes Road”

I have to confess that I am a little addicted to YouTube. The videos are usually short, of qite high quality video and cover almost every subject under the sun. I have been using it to look at a variety of subject over the last few weeks from Philosophy to how to use a pieceContinue reading “576 – YouTube”

This morning’s picture is one of those reasons why my morning walk around the same circuit is never boring. I had been stood at the end of the Haslar Marina Pier Wall doing my weather report to the #Breakfastclub and I could see what was coming. You never know of course which way it’s goingContinue reading “575 – Morning Sky”

I have to say that in general, the council does a reasonable job of keeping Gosport looking OK. Their gardeners are clearly dedicated to the cause, and over the last few years, when the hanging baskets go up I have seen the same two chaps tending them during my morning walks. Nice to see. IContinue reading “574 – The title comes later”

There is no denying, that there is at least one part of Gosport that has a bad reputation that has been there for many years. The reputation remains even though the appearance of that part of town has mostly changed beyond all recognition. Just occasionally, somebody will let side down and do something stupid whichContinue reading “573 – Actually, it’s quite nice”