A trip back in time to Portsmouth of 1979 | Nostalgia

We go back 43 years today for a further six photos from The News archive, images which were all taken in 1979.

By Deborah Croker

Published 7th Jun 2022, 07:43 BST

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The pictures make it look like another age with The Hard bus station looking like a child’s toy set and hardly any traffic in St Helen’s Parade, Southsea, on a lovely summer’s day.

Click here to see many more pictures of the city from 1979.

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