Sorry, Heather. As I've pointed out many times in this thread; Coming up with numbers, even particular streets, is 99.9% impossible. So many of my images seem to hail from the days when a man would set up a heavy, wooden box camera on a tripod and expose a sheet of glass. Why would anyone do that, moving through Portsmouth, door to door?
Factor in the innate propensity for the good people of Portsmouth to emerge from their photographed homes, calling, " Oy! Whass yor f**king game?! ", and I wouldn't like to try it now either
No. I
do have the one image of St Georges Square. It features people in what I'd take to be Victorian era garb. Posh as hell back then, eh?
Absolutely no clue as to which aspect it portrays though. There's a hotel, on the left. What looks like possibly a church, or something, to the right background. In Sun St, it seems?
From ye post, it sounds as if ye in Portsmouth now? My Great Gran ~ that's her in my avatar ~ breathed her last in Sun St. As did her daughter, my Great Aunt Bec. Council flat though. Not a big, posh place. I believe that's next to SGS? Not been there myself in some, pushing forty years now.
Ye more than welcome to this shot. If ye feel it may lend a better feeling for those times. PM me an addy, if so.
I can also, doubtless, dig out plenty of other 'atmospheric' shots of the general area, in bygone times.
Sorry I can't pin point the individual property.
Have ye ever read " The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook " ? It's available free, on line. Kindle job. Delightful old period drama. The sort of thing they don't write anymore.
