The Fifth Hants Volunteer Arms – or the Fifth Hants as it is frequently referred to – stands tall in the landscape, and whilst not dominating the street, it is surely synonymous with it. It [… read more ]
Over the years, the story of the Still and West pub in Old Portsmouth has intersected with the stories of many local people. One such person is author, actor and playwright John Bartlett who concludes [… read more ]
Over the years, the story of the Still and West pub in Old Portsmouth has intersected with the stories of many local people. Author, actor and playwright John Bartlett is one such person. In the [… read more ]
Writer and actor John Bartlett remembers an iconic Portsmouth pub and some shambolic yet hilarious musical goings-on within. The Sir Robert Peel was built in 1967 and demolished some forty years later. It had little [… read more ]
John Oke Bartlett continues his storytelling of Portsmouth’s pub history and the larger than life characters he has met along the way. In the third of the series, we meet Ted, a regular at the [… read more ]
S&C Contributing Editor John Oke Bartlett revisits a family mystery of war, trauma and Christmases past. Nana didn’t talk much about life with her first husband Victor Nash. According to my parents’ marriage certificate, Victor had [… read more ]
In a S&C Christmas exclusive, actor, playwright and S&C Contributing Editor John Bartlett recalls the Christmas customs of his childhood. Some of these customs remain with us, others now seem alien or eccentric. In 1956, [… read more ]
S&C Contributing Editor John Oke Bartlett never really knew his father, who served in the Royal Navy in World War II. Now, some years after her death, he’s compelled to record as much as he [… read more ]
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 ]
Writer and actor John Bartlett remembers an eccentric Portsmouth character and the peculiar gifts he would bring. The bitter northeasterly wind had been blowing all day bringing with it the odd flurry of icy sleet. [… read more ]
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