In pictures: The Portsmouth area in the 1940s and '50s | Nostalgia

From Hayling Island to Goodwood via Lee-on-the-Solent, today we look at the wider Portsmouth area in the 1940s and ’50s.
Freddie March standing by his MG Midget No. 60 in which he won the Double Twelve at Brooklands in 1931 and founded the Goodwood Motor Circuit in 1948. Picture: The News PP4799Freddie March standing by his MG Midget No. 60 in which he won the Double Twelve at Brooklands in 1931 and founded the Goodwood Motor Circuit in 1948. Picture: The News PP4799
Freddie March standing by his MG Midget No. 60 in which he won the Double Twelve at Brooklands in 1931 and founded the Goodwood Motor Circuit in 1948. Picture: The News PP4799

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