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Portsmouth (/ ˈ p ɔːr t s m ə θ / ⓘ PORTS-məth) is a port city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England.Most of Portsmouth is located on Portsea Island, off the south coast of England in the Solent, making Portsmouth the only city in England not located primarily on the mainland.
Portsmouth suffers flooding due to the failure of the emergency water drainage system during heavy rainfall. 2001 MyTV, which is later renamed PortsmouthTV, is launched. Gunwharf Quays opens on the site of the former HMS Vernon. Portsmouth hosts the third International Festival of the Sea. 2003 The construction of the Spinnaker Tower begins.
The business however returned as part of the Portsmouth rebuilding programme, with a new store within the re-constructed Town centre during the 1950s. But in 1965 the store was purchased by the United Drapery Stores and subsequently in 1982 the store was converted to an Allders. [4] The Allders store was sold in 2005 to Debenhams. The Debenhams ...
South Hampshire is a term used mainly to refer to the conurbation formed by the city of Portsmouth, city of Southampton and the non-metropolitan boroughs of Gosport, Fareham, Havant and Eastleigh in southern Hampshire, South East England. The area was estimated to have a population of over 1.5 million in 2013. [1]
1945 – Portsmouth Public Community Library founded with Bertha Edwards as the founding librarian [23] 1948 – The fourth annexation since becoming an independent city, pushing the city boundary westward to Western Branch. [20] 1949 – Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum established. [24] 1950 – Population: 80,039. 1952 – Downtown Tunnel opens.
In 1901 Second Army Corps was formed, with South East District at Dover, Southern District at Portsmouth and Western District at Devonport under command. 1901–1904 Lieutenant General Sir Evelyn Wood [23] General Officer Commanding Southern Command. 1905–1909 Lieutenant General Sir Ian Hamilton; 1909–1912 Lieutenant General Sir Charles Douglas
Portsmouth and Southampton have traditionally been fierce rivals. Portsmouth won the FA Cup in 1939 and 2008 and the Football League title in 1949 and 1950. Southampton won the FA Cup in 1976 and reached the final in 1900, 1902, and 2003, as well as finishing second in the Football League in 1984.
One of the emplacements in bastion 1 of the Hilsea Lines. The Hilsea Lines are a line of 18th- and 19th-century fortifications built at Hilsea to protect the northern approach to Portsea Island, an island off the southern coast of England which forms the majority of the city of Portsmouth and its key naval base.