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Title: High Street, Cosham, Portsmouth, 1920 [Go to resource]
Description: View from Cosham Railway station looking north. A couple can be seen to the left on a horse and carriage. To the right is coal and coke merchants Colyer & Co. You can also spot a man with cycle pausing to light a cigarette. There is a tram in the distance heading south. In the distance is the new Military hospital, which was begun in 1904 and occupied in 1908, it is known today as Queen Alexandra Hospital. Fort Widley, which can be seen in the distance, was built in 1862 as part of Palmerston's Portsmouth defences. Rogers, Peter. 1986. Cosham with Widley & Hilsea in Old Picture Postcards p. 2. Portsmouth Museums and Records Service. 1999. Portsmouth in the 20th century. Copy of a postcard. 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: building
Colyer and Company
Military Hospital
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Fort Widley
tram
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High StreetTemporal: start=1920-01-01; Source: Sense of place SE Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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