14 sensational rare old images of Portsmouth Town Hall - before it became the Guildhall

Some of those included in this selection are the hall lit up for Armistice celebrations, Portsmouth's first motor buses arriving in 1919, Portsmouth Territorials filling the square in August 1914, The foundation stone of the Portsmouth Guildhall (then Town Hall) being put into place on Oct 14th 1886 and parcels being prepared for British prisoners-of-war in the hall.