By Anne Paton-Cragg The story so far New to Portsmouth, Ranulph the wolf lodges with feisty fox Trixie, and the two of them have a stall selling “wild food wraps” on the seafront. Ranulph [… read more ]
Roving reviewer Emily Priest explores Southsea’s brand new slice of ‘hipster paradise’, once a rough and ready local. Before it was The Southsea Village, 81 Palmerston Road used to be Owen’s. I never went there [… read more ]
Food critic Emily Priest visits the under-estimated Fawcett Road to find a cafe everyone’s talking about. Good value for money, unique flavours and a meal deal makes Baffled Coffee a must-see stop on The Southsea [… read more ]
Emily Priest reviews the annual Castle Road Summer Fayre and finds not only music and drink but a celebration of local culture too. On the first weekend of August, I travelled down to Castle Road [… read more ]
Emily Priest reviews and reports on the 11th Southsea Food Festival, which ran on the weekend of 15th July, where she finds plenty to talk about as well as to eat. It was my first [… read more ]
A number of authors, such as Rudyard Kipling and HG Wells, have connections with Southsea, although they wrote little, or nothing while they lived there. Frederick Thomas Jane (1865-1916), the eponymous founder of Jane’s Fighting [… read more ]
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