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Title: Royal Clarence Yard, Portsmouth [Go to resource]
Description: In 1704 what would become the Royal Clarence Yard was first used to supply goods to the Navy. Officially named Royal Clarence Yard in 1831 - it would supply water, bread, salt meat, beer and rum to the Royal Navy ships in Portsmouth. In 1856-58 St George's Barracks were built to house upto 1,000 soldiers designated to guard Royal Clarence Yard. In 1941-42 the yard was bombed as a high profile target in World War Two. The site finally closed as a victualling yard in 1989 and awaits development. Whitehouse, Richard. The Evening News. 29 August 2002 p8-9. Copy of an engraving created by J. Harwood, London. 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 Rights holder: Portsmouth City Council Subjects: building
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boatTemporal: start=1846-07-08; Source: Sense of place SE Creator: J. Harwood, London Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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