
That was before it became the City of Portsmouth Boys’ School in 1975.
Two of his main hobbies were photography and flying and he would regularly take to the skies from the flying school based at the old Portsmouth Airport, taking some now-historical aerial shots of the city.
All today’s pictures were taken by him between 50 and 60 years ago.Above we see the Commercial Road and Edinburgh Road area.
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