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Portsmouth: city of culture? Archive
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Portsmouth Greyhound Stadium
by Vicky Halliday Portsmouth Greyhound Stadium closed in April of this year. Buy antibiotics online without prescription. Online Drugstore. It had been threatened with closure for many years but hadbeen lucky in the past with last minute reprieves. This time, they were not so lucky. The Greyhound Stadium was built in 1931 and was one [...] -
Victoria Swimming Baths
by Vicky Halliday Victoria Swimming Baths is making way for 600 student flats. Zithromax pharmacy Cheap Levitra online The Halls of Residence will be oneof the highest university buildings in the country. It was never the most attractive building, built in the 1960s, but it will be sadly missed by Portsmouth residents who are already [...] -
Treadgolds Museum
by Vicky Halliday In a b Order Doxycyclineack street of Old Portsmouth, sits the Treadgolds Museum. It began its life as an ironmongers and forge in 1809 and remained in the hands of the Treadgold family until 1988, when it passed to Hampshire County Council. The museum closed in 2003, for Health and Safety reasons, [...] -
North End Odeon
by Vicky Halliday I have been putting this article off for weeks, as it is a topic close to my heart and I knew it would upset and/or annoy me putting it into words. Opening its doors as the Odeon in December 1936, it was the most expensive and largest Odeon cinema built that year [...] -
The ABC, Portsmouth
by Vicky Halliday The Savoy Cinema w as built in 1937 Zithromax pharmacyas a 1,911 seater theatre. In 1964 it was closed for renovation and reopened as The ABC Cinema. In 1997 plans were submitted to redevelop the north of Portsmouth City centre, which included the ABC building, Sainsburys, The Tricorn and the gymnasium at [...] -
Hilsea Lido
by Vicky Halliday Hilsea Lido opened in 1935, as a freshwater swimming facility for the communities of North Portsmouth. Order Doxycycline At its peak, it could accommodate up to 900 swimmers and 1000 spectators and regularly hosted diving championships, to further enhance its celebrity status Hilsea Lido also featured in the 1975 film “Tommy”, which [...] -
Cosham cinemas
by Vicky Halliday The ABC Cinema, High Street Built in 1934, as The C Zithromax pharmacyarlton Cinema, the building was badly damaged during a bombing raid in World War II. Buy antibiotics online without prescription. Online Drugstore. 4 people died in the explosion but the cinema was renovated and reopened. In 1982 it was again [...] -
Portsmouth: City of Culture?
by Vicky Halliday For a while now I have been concerned with the demise of culture in the UK. Cheap Levitra online Music venues have closed, pubs have gone out of business, people seem to favour sitting in their bedroom listening to Spotify rather than seeing a band live. What has happened to society Order [...]