Portsmouth in pictures from the 1960s | Nostalgia

Today a collection of lovely old shots of Portsmouth street scenes, all from the 1960s.

If they look like a city from another century, well, that’s because…

Albert Road, Southsea, 1965. Picture courtesy of Neil Marshall - author of Portsmouth Reflections.placeholder image
Albert Road, Southsea, 1965. Picture courtesy of Neil Marshall - author of Portsmouth Reflections.

Portsmouth was very much still dusting itself off after the Second World War and perhaps these black and white shots capture the greyness of those immediate post-war decades.

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