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Guided Walk - Wednesday 1st July
Castle Street - A Look at Some Treasures of Portchester.A Guided walk led by local historian Bryan Jerrard. Meet at the Portchester Castle car park at 7pm.
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Portsmouth Panopticon
A free Poster Exhibition about Portsmouth Block Mills by Katariina Mauranen will be on display in Boathouse 7 at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard from Monday 29 June until Sunday 5 July (10am - 4.30pm)More...
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Architectural Bus Tour - 8 August
The Portsmouth Society will be running another of its popular tours of the city by vintage double-decker bus on Saturday 8th August. We will be looking at new buildings, restorations and landscaping schemes including those that have featured in, or will feature in, the Portsmouth Society's Design Awards.More...
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Successful school design
CABE (Commission for Architecture in the Built Environment) have issued guidance on successful school design. This is very relevant for Portsmouth with the Building Schools for the Future programme in full swing as we learned at the Portsmouth Society's May meeting.The publications aim to help local authority clients, bidders, designers and local planning authorities whose building schools for the future sample school projects are being reviewed by the commission.
For a full description and links to the documents, see www.cabe.org.uk/publications/successful-school-design
Winter 2009 Newsletter
- 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
The Tricorn: Life and Death of a Sixties Icon
This forthcoming book by Celia Clark and Robert Cook explores what makes an architectural icon – and what unmade it. It sets the Tricorn within its architectural context:.More...
Climate change and the Coastal Historic Environment
A public lecture will be given by by Peter Murphy, Coastal Heritage Officer with English Heritage on Wednesday 11 March at 6pm in the University's Portland Building.During the 21st century, climate change is likely to have increasing impacts on coastal archaeological sites, historic buildings and landscapes. English Heritage aims to conserve the historic environment; the problem is how to do this during a period of rapid change.
Admission is free but please reserve a place by contacting events@port.ac.uk or 023 9284 3757. See also www.port.ac.uk.
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Autumn 2008 Newsletter
- 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".
World Heritage Bid Web Site
The project to inscribe Portsmouth Harbour, Spithead and the Isle of Wight as a Unesco World Heritage site now has its own Web site. On it you will find full details of the proposals and how you can become involved.Visit the World Heritage Bid Web site.
Portsmouth Reflections
An innovative book by Neil Marshall has been published featuring pictures of Portsmouth Then and Now.More ...
MARITIME CITY - PORTSMOUTH 1945 - 2005'
An inspirational view of Portsmouth's development since the second world war.The Society put together an exhibition entitled Portsmouth 1945-2000 in St Agatha's Church to celebrate the millennium. It is now published in a new book which also covers developments up to the present day. Its aim is to celebrate our city, in which we are all proud to live.
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Who are we?
The Portsmouth Society is an independent voluntary body affiliated to the Civic Trust with the purpose of promoting good design in the built environment. We campaign for quality in new buildings and for the preservation of the best of Portsmouth's existing environment of buildings, streets, and open spaces.
See "About Us" for more information.
Pompey as she is spoke
We continue to received comments from around the globe which were started by an article in the Winter 2002 newsletter on the Portsmouth dialect (Pompeyspeak!).View all comments.
Read the original article.
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