Camber docks, Portsmouth, in pictures | Nostalgia
Ships have been landing goods at the town that grew up around the Camber since the owner of a fleet of merchant ships, Jean de Gisors, decided, in about 1180, that the sheltered harbour at the Camber was the ideal place to start a town from which he could trade with Normandy.
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