Annual Reports
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| The Portsmouth Society's archives go back many years. We have recalled some of our newsletters and have made them available here. We hope that they will be of interest to members, readers and historians. We are also recalling other items including annual reports and design competition results. | |||||||||||
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| All newsletters are available for viewing or printing in Adobe PDF format. Click the box on the right to download your free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader. | |
| January 2012 | Bob Adderley, 1930-2011 Progress at Wymering Manor New phone mast for Copnor Savoy Court, South Parade Architecture à la Café Audrey Jane Mullis, 1934 -2011 2011 Design Awards Please can you help? Tricorn Shop Centre sign BBC Reel History 2 Film Event Quebec House, Old Portsmouth Conservation or Change – the care of Church Buildings Farewell to ASWE Romsey trip - A fine day, a fine town… New Elm Trees for Ladies’ Mile, Southsea Common Memories of the Great Storm of October 1987 |
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| September 2011 | Farewell Savoy Court Edwardian Seafront Shelter Civic Day 2011 - in Retrospect The Future for St Peter's and St Luke's Southsea Revising Lloyd/Pevsner The Friends of Cumberland House natural History Museum, Southsea The Localism Bill Friends of Old Wymering - Alive and Kicking! Guided Walk - The City Centre's Best 20th Century Buildings News from Portsmouth and Southsea Tree Wardens News from Civic Voice The Portsmouth Book of Days New Theatre Royal Corporate Membership |
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| June 2011 | Wymering Manor- Building At Risk Civic Day Arrives Portsmouth Society Officers and Committee 2011-12 Andrew Handyside What’s Portsmouth For? – Penny Mordaunt MP Portsmouth’s Favourite Trees St Peter’s Church and Institute Somers Road Consultations Dockyards In Art: Art in Dockyards Anti-tank defences at Eastney beach Gog and Magog Greening the Tricorn Grey The Bunker Old Portsmouth: A Garrison Town in the Mid-19th Century Portsmouth Society on Twitter @PortsmouthSoc Committee Minutes Summer Day Trip to Romsey |
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| March 2011 | The Saga of Derelict Eyesores on the Seafront Buildings of England - a celebration of the achievement of SirNikolaus Pevsner and his co-authors. New book from CABE - Creating excellent buildings - A guide for clients Civic Day Update Pedestrianisation of Commercial Road (South) and Edinburgh Road (East) Planning Matters Book Review - Deane Clark’s Portsmouth A Green Walk in Old Portsmouth Words of Wisdom from the Leader of Portsmouth City Council |
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| November 2010 | Design Awards 2010 - A Focus on Sustainable Development The Big Event Civic Day 2011 Meet the committee – part 2 Heritage Weekend, Southsea Castle New Books: Thomas Ellis Owen – Shaper of Portsmouth,‘Father of Southsea’; The Tricorn Life and Death of a Sixties Icon; Deane Clark’s Portsmouth English Heritage Protection Process Portsmouth Tree Wardens Transfer of Assets Fortifications on the South Coast Recruit a friend! |
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| July 2010 | Civic Voice is Launched Letter from the Chairman Southern Comfort 2010 Meet the committee – part 1 What the Victorians left to us The New 2010 Strand Mural PPS5 - Planning for the Historic Environment Plan to put up memorial to 14 victims of air raid Do Street Trees have a Future? Tree Identification Walk in Milton Park Design Awards 2010 - Nominations invited Portsmouth Green Fair Letter to the Editor Portsea Island Discs |
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| April 2010 | “Green Lung” Destroyed at Mile End Road New Chairman for the Portsmouth Society Membership Subscriptions A Message from Celia Clark Introducing - Bob Adderley New National Voice for Civic Societies New use for Beneficial School, Portsea Can you help? Space, Place-making and Urban Design - SPUD Book Review - 'Kilo Sierra Five One' (Policing Portsmouth in the 1980s) Portsmouth and Southsea Tree Wardens Days Out with the Portsmouth Society |
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| January 2010 | New Continental Ferry Port Terminal Building Unveiled Civic Society Initiative – Conclusions and Next Steps Civic Trust South East Autumn Conference World Heritage Bid MOD disposals - new research commissioned by the Bill Sargeant Trust Greening Southsea Housing Space Standards: Rising or Falling? Local Transport Plan 3 Site of Savoy Buildings, South Parade, Southsea Fawcett Rd, Emanuels & Willesden Some Unexpected Choices? What do you love about Portsmouth? Patricia Sheridan (Paddy) 1930-2009 An Appreciation Two new local history books from Ron Brown |
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| September 2009 | Design Awards 2009 - A record year for new buildings in Portsmouth! Goodbye Civic Trust, Hello Civic Society Initiative 'City of Culture' 2013 Tricorn Book is published! World Heritage Site - update The Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment, Portsdown Hill Architectural 'Bus Tour, Saturday 08 August 2009 Greening Southsea Volunteering Opportunity - Tree Wardens English Heritage Conservation Area Report No.6 Your local independent cinema Days out with the Portsmouth Society Pedestrian Guardrailing Gift Aid - Helping the Society's Funds! Denis Callender Treadgolds Ironmongers … … and Treadgolds Warehouse UniverCities Conference - Portsmouth 23 & 24 July |
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| February 2009 | Save Our Trees! World Heritage Site update Public Art Strategy The Pyramids, Southsea Go permeable - it's planning free! Seafront Shelter Days out with the Portsmouth Society Planning update Dr Colin White Your local independent cinema needs you! Maintaining the unique character of Drayton Lane From the Membership Secretary Grass Roots Online - the Civic Societies Newsletter |
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| October 2008 | 2008 Annual Design Awards Portsmouth Harbour, the Isle of Wight and Spithead as a World Heritage site Link with sister city Portsmouth New Hampshire Design Champion/Historic Environment Champion An evening walking tour of Alverstoke Village The Omega Centre Somerstown, Planning Q & As "Your city, your future - the draft Portsmouth Plan". |
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| June 2008 | Northern Quarter Plans Approved Architectural Bus Tour City Vision Centres - Southampton - and Portsmouth? Designing Portsmouth 2009/2010 Hilsea Lido Update Southsea Flooding World Heritage Site Bid The Shelter on Eastney Esplanade Thomas Ellis Owen Sculpture Treadgolds Museum Naval Medicine Pyramids update Rodney Gordon 1033-2008 Poleitis! Philip Kolvin's Speech to the Civic Trust South East. |
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| January 2008 | The past is a present to the future Northern Quarter Plans Now Available New Venue for Monthly Meetings Visit to Farnborough Airport Farewell Pitt Street Baths Tipner Regeneration Masterplan Hilsea Lido Pool for the People Boundary walls and Conservation Areas What's Past is Passed? - Creative Thinking Exercise Your City, Your Future - Core Strategy Submission The Guardsman, Fratton Road Cut the VAT Coalition Odeon Cinema North End |
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| September 2007 Special report |
Design Awards 2007 Harbour cruise report Hilsea Lido Wymering Manor World Heritage Site update T.E.Owen sculpture Commercial Rd/Edinburgh Rd public inquiry PFC Stadium Core Strategy - what's on the horizon for Portsmouth? The case for removing South West Trains' cramped Suburban- style units from London-Portsmouth Main Line Services |
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| June 2007 | Portsmouth FC Stadium for The Hard?, Core Strategy for Portsmouth Proposals for Northern Quarter, Planning Matters Buildings in their original condition Membership update South West Trains Planning white paper Meeting with PCC Chief Exec. David Williams World Heritage proposals Edinburgh Rd / Commercial Rd closure Portsmouth Society wins Civic Award Commemorations |
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| January 2007 | Design Awards 2006 Savoy Buildings New John Lewis store for Northern Quarter Portsmouth Harbour as a World Heritage Site Report from Southern Comfort 2006 The New Planning System Core Strategy Questionnaire Architecture Week 2007 Portsmouth Archaeology Reviving Hilsea Lido The City Council's Trees South West Trains (SWT) downgrades Portsmouth-Waterloo line. |
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| July 2006 | Wymering Manor Success Southern Comfort 2006 Buckingham House, Old Portsmouth Archaeology – missing in Portsmouth New Publications Knight & Lee - Proposal for listed status Portsmouth Festivities South East Plan Proposed Regeneration of Tipner Abolition of Crown exemption New Think Tank Volunteer Day 17 June 2006 |
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| February 2006 | 'Maritime City - Portsmouth 1945 - 2005' Northern Quarter - Outline Permission Granted Brunel Bicentennial Celebrations Wymering Manor - the oldest house in Portsmouth Decaying Public Heritage Craftspeople in short supply - yet popular university course to close? Southern Comfort 2005, Farnham Nuclear or not? Peter Cobb - Fortifications buff, enthusiast and colleague Nothing to Report - more signs in Old Portsmouth St George's Road Pelican crossing - a small victory for the Society |
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| September 2005 | Portsmouth Society Design Awards 2005 "Northern Quarter" redevelopment Definition of "consult" and "consultation fatigue" Architecture week bus tour Wymering Manor A Sandwich or a Portsmouth? Coming shortly : the Society's book Portsmouth 1915 - 2005, published by Suttons, should be available in time for Christmas!Pompeyspeak - Dinlo The Walled City Guide to XingchengWalled Cities get together |
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| May 2005 | How do you recognise a good building? Design Award 2005 - Nominations Invited "Inside Out" Home for Mary Rose Beneficial School, Kent Street, Portsea A sustainable future for Fraser Battery, Eastney? Concrete Threat to Front Gardens Block Mills - top historic site and Building at Risk Mudlarks More Pompeyspeak Travel costs since 1997 Traffic gridlocks in Portsmouth The South East Plan The Point and Broad Street – Appeal rejected Nelson's statue and the Victory anchor Moving around Portsmouth |
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| February 2005 | What Future for Southsea Shopping Precinct? How to declutter your streets Trafalgar 200 Lionel Brett (Viscount Esher) 1913-2004 Replanning the Tricorn site Tricorn News & Gossip The Great Portsmouth Gridlock The Rimmington mural Traffic Signs in Conservation Areas Milan Mandaric statue appeal Defects of the traffic system Postcards from Portsmouth Forgotten Ports of England TETRA - Transmitting from Fratton Park Conservation News Guide to Planning |
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| August 2004 | Pompey Stadium and Village PFI for Roads Rebuilding and Maintenance A Portsmouth Treasure - dimly revealed Determination of Planning Applications Kate Crowley's Fund The Mainline they Shouldn't Ignore Thomas Ellis Owen Festival Southern Comfort Meeting Tricorn Fest New Venue for Monthly Meetings |
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| January 2004 | The Tricorn - What Future? Tricorn as an Inspiration Your favourite urban place Gunwharf Lost History Cr*p Towns! Best Practice in Regeneration 2003 Consuming Less in our Homes The New Queen Alexandra Hospital The Tower - What Cost? BBC Southern Ways in South Today Portsmouth Point The Riviera but Nearer Quote of the Month Wasted Space |
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| September 2003 | Design Awards 2003 Autumn Lecture Series The Vulcan decision Solent Architecture Centre The Tricorn Cosham Tram Shelter - Help Please! The University's Milton Campus Waterworks visit The Portsmouth City Local Plan The Civic Trust South East Love and principal, tough and tender The Old House at Home, Paulsgrove The Civic Trust South East Queen Alexandra Hospital |
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| May 2003 | Further development at Gunwharf Quays The University's Milton Campus The future of Church Buildings Exhibition of work by Eric Rimmington City of Portsmouth Preserved Passenger Depot West Southsea residents' parking - Update The Old House at Home, Paulsgrove Highland Road Cemetery Architecture Week Seminar - Achieving High Density and High Quality Settlements |
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| January 2003 | Design Competition 2002 - Lord Mayor unveils
the plaques. Broad Street Bus Museum under threat. Manhatten on Portsmouth Harbour - high rise at Gunwharf? Vulcan Building Gunwharf - sacrificed to flats? Portsmouth Society's 30th Anniversary. The Impact of the Signing Strategy. Brent Goose Strategy. The New Road Centre. Sale of the Centuries. Commercial Road Fountain - a personal view. St James's Hospital Grounds. Pompey as she is spoke - yet more readers' comments. Wymering Manor Update. Book Review - Portsmouth Ships, Dockyard and Town. |
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| September 2002 | City Signing Strategy When you're in a hole, stop digging! Trafalgar House mural New Fleet Headquarters at Whale Island Gunwharf developments Architecture Week Seminar, St James's Hospital Buildings of concern The City Centre Plan Buildings at Risk Register 2002, Vospers in the Dockyard Pompey as she is spoke - readers' comments New bridge on the block |
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| February 2002 | Portsmouth Society Design Awards 2001. Pompey as she is spoke. Making Common Cause - The future of New Road Centre. Southsea Castle and D-Day Museum future Assured. Disagreements with Government. Greening the city. Seminar on Mobile Phone Masts. City of culture? Road to Rail for Freight. Competition. The Society - the way forward. Design Improvement - a short-lived vision? A History of Cambridge Barracks. Portsdown Tunnels. Placecheck. |
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| March 2001 | Connaught Drill Hall under threat. Gunwharf opening. St James Village Green Inquiry. Cumberland House. Landport redevelopment. Regeneration of housing in the inner city. Architectural competition for Old Portsmouth. The Draft City Plan. The Mary Rose National Treasure. Monorail update. Stop the grot! Images of England. Tri-sail advertising. The Kings Theatre. Advertising on phone boxes. |
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| August 2001 | Museum Buildings at Risk. Armslengthing Southsea Castle. D-Day Museum & Eastney Pumping Station. Connaught Drill Hall. A New Footbridge for Hilsea Moat. What Is Good Design? A New Conservation Area? Rivers Street Hall. Rail to the Docks. Extension of QA Hospital. Vulcan Building. Kings Theatre Saved! School Losses. Boathouse 6, Dockyard. Up My Street. Green Lung Sacrificed to cheap food. St James Town Green. Design Awards 2001. Designs Watered Down. |
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| February 2000 | Millennium Tower. Monorail Proposal. Fratton Goods Yard. Pitt Street Baths. Portsmouth 2000 Exhibition Bursledon Brickworks. Building Conservation. Building Sights. The City Plan. RAe Farnborough. Museums and Galleries Month. Amazing Lack of a Maze. Micheldever. Former Palace Cinema. |
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| July 2000 | Mill Redoubt, Gunwharf. The Millennium Scheme. The Local Transport Plan. Views on the Gunwharf Restoration. Civic Trust Champion Project. Copnor Incinerator Update. The Harbour Tunnel. Design Competition 2000 Boathouse 4 Proposal. Cumberland House Museum. |
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| October 2000 | Listed Status for former Palace Cinema. Success over Vosper Proposal. Gardens for Wildlife. Planning in Decline. Friends of Cumberland Society. The Incinerator Inquiry. Flooding in Southsea. Book News. Rail Franchise Bids. News from the Dockyard. Report on the Southern Comfort meeting at Gosport. GROTT and the Tricorn. |
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| April 1999 | The Millennium Tower. Southsea Beach Water Pollution. St James's Park. City Centre (North) Planning Brief. The Incinerator. Towards 2000 and Beyond. Maintenance of Council Owned Property. Urban Living "Putting the heart back into our towns and cities". The Park Building, King Henry Street. LRT. New Road School. Local Agenda 21. Gunwharf Residential Development. Local Transport Plan. McDonalds at Cosham. The Camber Sheds. The New Theatre Royal. |
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| September 1999 | Entrance Feature for Portsmouth. New Road School. Millennium Tower Plans. Protecting the Dockyard's Historic Buildings. VAT on Historic Buildings. Regional Planning and Representation in the South East. Widespread Concern over Local Government Changes. Experiments in Consultation. English Heritage Grants Lost for Southsea? English Heritage and Blue Plaques. Voluntary Speed Reduction. Persistance Pays Against Pollution. The Future of Cities - the case for diversity and variety. Gardens in Mind, Goodbye Tricorn. Walmart : Caborn pledges no change in planning policy. Portsmouth Life Guard Unit. World Heritage Sites: Successful Trust Campaign. |
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| January 1998 | Capetown Lessons for Gunwharf. Southern Eye. When the Boat Comes In. Design of Portsmouth's New Secondary School. Pay Here! Gunwharf and The Tower. Controversy. Continental Ferry Port Motorway Exit. The Sewage Scheme. Towards 2000 and Beyond. Cycle Routes in Southsea. Millennium - or is it? |
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| November 1998 | Design Awards 1998. The Millennium Tower. New Road School. The Proposed Incinerator. Gunwharf & the Transport & Works Act. Southern Comfort 1998. Palmerston Folly up for Auction. Fort Cumberland - European Centre for Archaeology. Modern Local Government. |
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| January 1997 | Gunwharf / HMS Vernon - The Most Important
Opportunity. A Future for the Past? Gunwharf Quays - The Portsmouth Society's Response. David Lloyd on Gunwharf. The History of Gunwharf / HMS Vernon. Dave Davenport, Chairman. Beleaguered Cities. |
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| April 1997 | Proposals for HMS Vernon / Gunwharf. Gunwharf - The story so far. Trees on danger list in water crisis - should Portsmouth copy London? Tricorn Send-off. St James's Park. Report from the Air Quality Conference, February 1997. Yes, we want our city opened up for the people. How shall we live? Home of the Rifle Range. Portsmouth Society Sweatshirts. Can't quite place it. |
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| May 1997 (special edition) |
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| September 1997 | Design Awards. Gunwharf - Outline Permission Granted. The Millennium Tower. End of Eden? Somerstown Community Wildlife Garden. Flagship Projects : their place in urban development and regeneration. Harbour tunnelling costs must not sink LRT project. |
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| April 1996 | Boathouse 4 - Save or Demolish? Art in Cities. Railtrack. Switching priorities in Ipswich City Parking Survey. "The biggest aspidistra in ...." Portsmouth! Public consultation on the South Hampshire Rapid Transit Scheme. Wish list for May elections. Sea front café's. Photographic Record. |
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| September 1996 | New plans to replace the Tricorn. Boathouse 4. Owen's Southsea. Design Awards 1996. Problem Roads. Heritage Open Days. Complaint to the Ombudsman rejected. Strawberry Tea. Air Quality Conference. Transport Vision. Albert Road School, Cosham. Where do we put new homes - town or country? Horse Sands Fort 28 August 1996. Autumn Party. |
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| April 1995 | Fort Cumberland - Future in Trust? The Tricorn - Part of our Heritage? Rees Hall - A victory for pastiche. St Mary's Church Fair. Memorial Tree for Muriel Davenport. Unveiling of the 1994 Design Awards. St James' Hospital Site - 475 Houses and Flats. Albert Road Annexe, Cosham. Southern Comfort '95. Millennium Project. Local Government review. More Power to the Lists. Fratton Goods Yard. Tricorn Challenge. |
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| August 1995 | New Plans for The Tricorn. Dockyard 500 Festival. Portsmouth Society Design Awards 1995. Heritage Open Days, September 1995. The Norrish Central Library. Hampshire Waste Disposal. Commercial Road Trees. Portsmouth Nostalgia. Hampshire 2011. St James' Hospital. Owen's Southsea Booklet. Albert Road School, Cosham. The Fresh Water Environment of Portsmouth. |
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| December 1995 | Design Awards 1995. Shocked Sir Norman shown the door. The Tricorn. Chairman's Editorial : What are civic or amenity societies for? The Good, the Bad and The Ugly - Improving the standard of architecture in new buildings. Heritage Open days. Letter to the Chairman. Naval-gazing. Public involvement in the Millennium Project. Hampshire County Structure Plan. Book Review : Local Attraction - The Design of New Housing in the Countryside - CPRE 1995. Albert Road School, Cosham. Commercial Road and Arundel Street Trees. St Jude's Church. |
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| Spring 1994 | University Seminar. St Jude's Church, Southsea. "Deserted bastions" Exhibition. Seminar on Owen's Southsea. The Government's Transport Policy. Transport Policy - Letter to "The News". Beneficial School, Portsea. Cottage Grove School, Southsea. No. 4 Boathouse, Portsmouth Naval Base. Inspector's report of the City Local Plan. Edinburgh road Public Inquiry. Pitt Street Baths. Traffic Calming Leaflet. |
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| Summer 1994 | Heritage Open Days 1994. Fascinating One Thousand - Dillie Keane becomes our 1000th member. Day Seminar on Owen's Southsea. Planning Matters. The University in the City. Hampshire Rubbish. |
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| December 1994 | Pitt Street Reopened! Design Awards. Eastern Road Cycleway. Southern Comfort. Redundant Dockyards. St Agatha's Church. |