So we decided to dive into our archives to find out how different they looked in the decades gone past.
You can see the photos we found in our gallery below.
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It includes images of Portsmouth and Southsea station as well as Station Street.
9. Memories of Portsmouth & Southsea railway station
Class 02 passing onto the dockyard branch from the High Level Portsmouth & Southsea railway station in 1955. Photo: Mick Cooper collection. Photo: The News archive
10. Memories of Portsmouth & Southsea railway station
Train enthusiast, Michael Harvey, getting a closer look at the railway steam locomotive Southern Railway 777 Sir Lamiel as it halts for a while on the upper level at Portsmouth & Southsea town station, 1995. The News PP5166 Photo: The News archive
11. Memories of Portsmouth & Southsea railway station
Visitors look over the Lord Nelson Class locomotive, Lord Hawke, during a train exhibition at Portsmouth Town Station, 21st October 1933. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo: The News archive
12. Memories of Portsmouth & Southsea railway station
The old General Post Office building in Commercial Road, Portsmouth, viewed from Station Street. Photo: The News archive