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Description: | On the edge of the common in the middle of the photograph can been seen the Naval War Memorial for the fallen of World War One. Similar memorials were built in Plymouth and in Chatham.
Construction of Clarence Esplanade began in 1848 with a public subscription and the treasury donating £300. The War Department gave the land free of charge. Convict labour was used for the construction and the first section between the Kings Rooms and Southsea Castle opened in August. For the construction thousands of tons of mud and shingle were brought from the dockyard where the steam basin was also being built. The esplanade was named after the father of the Lt Governor of the Garrison Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, after he remarked that "an admirable promenade could be made along Southsea beach".
Ref: Gates, W. Portsmouth that has passed. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | world war Clarence Esplanade beach war memorials | Temporal: | start=1926-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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