The Portsmouth Society - News
| News | Forgotten Ports of England | |
| Earlier news | Portsmouth lay before me, overshadowed by a great cloud of smoke from the
dockyards. In the distance lay the famous Whale Island Gunnery School,
and even as I looked there came the ominous rattle of heavy machine-gun
fire. To the left and much nearer lay narrow Horsea Island, with its forest of lattice-work wireless masts and its lake where torpedoes and miniature submarines are tested. Away behind me lay the turf-crowned chalky ridge of Portsdown." (George Goldsmith Carter 1951 - Evans Brothers Limited London Forgotten Ports of England p.139) Compare the view now? Celia |