Fiction
Sky Food
By Sue Harper After the Great Blizzard, Portsmouth looked like the North Pole. Snow was six feet high in the streets, deeper where it had drifted, and little narrow walkways were excavated where people could [… read more ]
HMS Victory
History
On the Lash at the Dockyard Gates
Actor and playwright John Bartlett spins an atmospheric yarn of love, tragedy and the lash set in the Portsmouth dockyard of old. “Farewell, farewell my own true love, this parting gives me pain You’ll be my hope, [… read more ]
Culture
Disney, Coastguards and Light Shows: Southsea’s Magical Past
In this charming memoir, writer and actor John Bartlett describes how the Southsea we know today has changed so dramatically from the Southsea he used to visit as a boy. When I was small, I [… read more ]