Remember the wonder of Woolies in Cascades? See our pictures from 1990 Portsmouth | Nostalgia

We go back 32 years to 1990 today for a series of fascinating pictures from The News archive showing the ever-changing face of Portsmouth.
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Just look at Cascades, isn’t it sparkling? Looks almost new doesn’t it?

That’s because it was.

The under-cover shopping complex which joined Commercial Road to The Tricorn had opened on September 26, 1989, about six months before our picture was taken.

A message from the editor, Mark Waldron.

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