Heritage

The original Royal Sailors’ Rest was located along Commercial Road, Landport, until the night of January 10, 1941, when it was razed by the Luftwaffe.

A magnificent stained glass window was created for the Royal Navy Haslar Hospital, Gosport, by a man who learned the skills only one year earlier.

A young Leigh Park mother with two disabled children was fighting to break down information barriers.

Every lunchtime Ted Smith and his friend Billy settled down for a quiet pint together.

Believe it or not these two pictures were taken at the same place.

Plans for a new town to be built in the Fareham area on green belt land just north of the western wards were unveiled by Hampshire County Council.

I expect many of you passed the John Pounds’ scrapyard at Tipner when entering the city via the M275 and, on glancing to your right, saw two submarines awaiting their fate.

I recently published a photo of the bathing pool used by the Royal Marines Light Infantry at Gosport and asked if anyone knew where it was. Derek Howard sent me this map showing its location.

Last Tuesday I published this photograph of what I suggested was the changing of the guard inside the main gate of Eastney Barracks. I asked if anyone could tell me the type of headwear the marines were wearing. Of course, someone could.

More than 500 relatives of the servicemen killed in the Falklands began the final stage of their pilgrimage to the South Atlantic.

Further to my recent article on the brickfields of Portsmouth, Jim Randall sent me this family photographs from about 1920.

Quick-thinking marine Derek Tomsett was the toast of friends on board HMS Victory after he saved the life of a baby girl.