The Portsmouth Society was founded in 1973, in response to the considerable areas of 'comprehensive redevelopment' and large road schemes taking place from the late 1960s. We would like to celebrate our thirtieth anniversary.

Do you have suggestions on appropriate ways of doing that? Some of the original founders are still active, so their service to the city amounts to thirty years - longer than nearly all the councillors and city officers. I cheekily suggested to the Lord Mayor that we should be made Freemen/women of the city!

Celia Clark