27 fascinating nostalgic pictures from Portsmouth’s past
By Deborah Croker
Published 28th Feb 2019, 14:03 GMT
Updated 12th Mar 2019, 16:50 GMT
Here are some our favourite nostalgic photos of Portsmouth from the Getty archive.
Take a look back in time with these stunning nostalgic shots from the past.
Watched by Royal Navy divers the battered SRN-6 hovercraft is raised from the Portsmouth seabed in England. March 8, 1972.(Photo by Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
An engine driver showing a group of schoolboys 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)
Portsmouth Harbour, situated on Portsea Island in Hampshire, circa 1890. (Photo by F. J. Mortimer/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A boat moored across the water from the military Royal Hospital Haslar, Gosport, Hampshire, circa 1840. Engraving by J & F Harwood. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
An archway and bridge Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1900. (Photo by F. J. Mortimer/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Officers and crew stand on deck around the conning tower of the second Royal Navy Holland-class submarine HMS Holland 2 on patrol entering Fort Blockhouse submarine base near Gosport circa 1905 off Gosport, United Kingdom. (Photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Getty Images)
The Royal Navy D-class submarine HMS D1 on patrol near the Fort Blockhouse submarine base at Gosport circa 1910 off the coast of Gosport, United Kingdom. (Photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Getty Images)
Salvaged coaches from a Southern Railway electric train after they were lifted from Portsmouth harbour, 12th September 1946. The coaches sank during a World War II air raid. (Photo by Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
British explorer Wally Herbert, the first man to walk to the North Pole, returns to Portsmouth aboard the HMS Endurance after his 3,800 mile trek across the Arctic, 23rd June 1969. From left to right, his team are squadron leader Freddie Church, general assistant Alan Gill, group leader Herbert, glaciologist Roy Koerner and medical officer Kenneth Hedges. With them are two of the expedition's huskies, Eskimo Nell and Apple Dog. (Photo by Ron Case/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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)
Precarious spectators watching Arsenal's opening game of the season against Portsmouth at the North London club's Highbury Stadium, 27th August 1938 (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Three British Bishops relaxing after attending their last General Synod as they retire; (L-R) Bishop Edward Henderson of Bath and Wells, Bishop Oliver Tomkins of Bristol and Bishop John Phillips of Portsmouth, in the grounds of Church House in Westminster, London, July 2nd 1975. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) at an airfield near Portsmouth after a flight from Upavon in an army biplane, 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
