Police directing traffic and sailors in uniform '“ How Portsmouth city centre has changed since 1961

By The Newsroom
Published 26th Nov 2018, 10:53 BST
Updated 8th Jan 2019, 17:03 BST
If you stood in the same place today you would see nothing of what can be seen in this view across Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, in 1961. Picture: Rose Bolton CollectionIf you stood in the same place today you would see nothing of what can be seen in this view across Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, in 1961. Picture: Rose Bolton Collection
If you stood in the same place today you would see nothing of what can be seen in this view across Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, in 1961. Picture: Rose Bolton Collection
Here's a marvellously atmospheric scene looking across Guildhall Square in 1961'¦Â if you can remember that far back. Today, if you stood with your back to the Norrish Central Library, Queen Victoria's statue would be roughly where the blue police telephone is.Â

From the left we have Verrechia's ice cream parlour, much-missed by those who remember it. We all pronounced it Ver-e-sha but I am sure it should be Ver-a-chia. No doubt someone will tell me.

Peeking over the left hand side of the roof of Portsmouth and Southsea railway station's high level platform roof is the general post office. In the road underneath a lorry is being unloaded without a care and next we have a policeman in a white coat directing traffic. The light in the sky shone on him when it was dark.

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