Cheap fares in days when shorts took the strain
The difference in travelling on one day and the next is almost 50 per cent in some cases.
Travel to London Waterloo before 9.30am Sunday and the fare was 15s 3d (76p). Travel after that time and the fare was just 10s 3d (52p). Lovely days.
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Hide AdI know the overweight man looks amusing and it beggars belief that he would ever venture outdoors dressed like it, but he was a scout and that’s all that matters.
We see three top scouts and the C-in-C Portsmouth Admiral Sir Arthur Power ready to inspect the parade of scouts during Scouting Week in 1950.
I like pictures such as the one of the parade as I invariably receive a letter from someone saying it was them third from the left.
I am sure there must be a few of these boys left in the city even though they are pensioners by now.
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Hide AdToday’s final picture features John Bevan, the chairman of the Historical Diving Society when he was a student at the Portsmouth College of Technology.
While he was studying there he formed the College Diving Club which still runs today.
He teamed up with the Odeon cinema which was running the James Bond film Thunderball at the time.
John borrowed the weapons from Pinewood Studios.