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Pompey’s close links to Dallas remembered: RETRO

Last Monday and Tuesday I published photographs sent to me by former Pompey reserve player Bobby Moffat who now resides in Dallas, Texas. Bob told me of his career and of the many ex-Portsmouth professionals who ended their playing days in America.

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Visitors are set to get a completely new view of HMS Victory at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

Visitors to be able to go underneath HMS Victory as part of new Portsmouth Historic Dockyard experience

Thirty million people have been on board HMS Victory at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard - but not even Nelson himself would have seen the remarkable views that are set to welcome visitors next year.

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Something Bobby never thought would happen in his younger days, on the same pitch as the great Brazilian, Pele

The former Pompey schoolboy who once shared a football pitch with Pele

I received an email from Dallas, Texas from Portsmouth-born Bobby Moffat. Bobby came from Eastney and attended Wimborne Road School.

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Pompey schoolboys at Millbank Park, Plymouth, in 1961.

Do you know what happened to these Pompey schoolboys? RETRO

As I mentioned yesterday, here is the Pompey schoolboys’ team in 1961 pictured at Plymouth before a cup game.

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'This £95m will help breathe new life into high streets all over England'

It’s great news at last for lots of our country’s beleaguered high streets as the government has revealed the ones - 69 of them across England - which will benefit from a £95m fund to revive historic shopping areas.

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The funeral procession of Captain Wildman Lushington. Picture: Stephen Cribb/Barry Cox postcard collection.

Portsmouth pilot's funeral attracted huge turnout: RETRO

The subject matter of some old postcards never ceases to amaze me, like this funeral procession travelling up Portsdown Hill. It was heading for Christ Church, Widley, for the service of Captain Wildman Lushington. What made him so prominent?

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The construction and life of Portsmouth’s Cascades in 25 historic photos

Cascades shopping centre turns 30 later this month and we’ve taken a trip down memory lane.

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Pictured in April 1950 are sea cadets from Horsham. Top left is Mick Puttick who served for 45 years.

Portsmouth boy sailor became Morse code expert and Freeman of London: RETRO

We have all heard and used the phrase, ‘He served man and boy’ to describe someone who spent their lives in some career or another.

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24 happy memories of Southsea's Clarence Pier funfair over the years

We can all remember the fun hours we spent enjoying the rides at Clarence Pier.

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The cover of Pete Crosss new book, A Nobody with Dreams: the Tricorn Club Story, to be released shortly.

Tricorn Club Portsmouth is remembered in former DJ's new book: RETRO

Many of my readers often mention the former nightclub, the Tricorn Club, named after the sprawling shopping centre in Charlotte Street, Landport, pictured above.

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Here we see a view down Warblington Lane, but what is it called today? Photo: Ralph Cousins collection

An idyllic snap of country life in Havant, but where exactly? RETRO

What a lovely bucolic scene, right, of country life in Havant. As I mentioned previously, I am putting together a collection of then and now photographs of the area and Ralph Cousins loaned me this picture of what was then called Warblington Lane.

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Prospect Lane to the north-east of Leigh Park during the snow of 1966. Photo: Charles Sexton.

Leigh Park couple bring history of their area to life in old photo: RETRO

In 1966 Charles and Patricia Sexton joined a self-build group who purchased land to the north-east of Leigh Park alongside a lane that part of the estate was later called, Prospect Farm.

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Anna Heinrich and Leon Palmer. Picture: Tom Chaplin

Portsmouth-based artists create new video exhibition inspired by Havant's natural springs

A NEW exhibition inspired by water and chalk aims to make an ordinary process look extraordinary and beautiful.

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21 fascinating photos showing how Palmerston Road has been transformed in 40 years

From Knight & Lee to Midnight Tandoori, Palmerston Road has undergone a lot of change in the last 40 years.

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Inset, a preserved Sunbeam Talbot as seen in the 1949 photograph of the Dell. Picture: Steve Daly

Portsmouth kids' cinema club song remembered after 70 years: RETRO

On August 29 I published a photo of The Dell, Southsea, with a gardener hard at work. The caption said it was 1969 but I was not convinced. Reader Steve Daly confirmed my suspicion, saying: ‘I checked through a series of my car books and it seems to me that someone has misread 1949 for 1969.

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