No matter what, us residents of Portsmouth will always put this city down.. but when it comes to reality there is no place like home, if people criticize we will defend it proudly. We take t for granted and don't realise how beautiful our city is, little seaside resort with so much history. we should be proud of where we live. thank you for this video, a summer one would be beautiful too as it will show how stunning gunwharf is and southsea seafront with it's historic castle, I love this :)
I'm going to live in Portsmouth for a year and this video is so beautiful that I got so emotional and just cried! I'm really hoping that i will be very happy when i get there! The city seems to be lovely, the video is extremely well done and the music is gorgeous!
Will great job mate, Portsmouth rocks...was there studying from 1998 to 2002...Pompey Rocks...The greatest years of my life were there. Great job mate, well done, amazing and thank you very much.
Really wonderfully atmospheric video. Really captured the best of the old town. Well done!! Made me quite emotional to watch it actually..thats talent.. :-)
+fiona cahill hi.....I graduated from UoP and this city taught me A LOT which I appreciate so much...which is LIFE......next year I am going travel to the UK and Portsmouth will be the place that I would like to visit
Seeing this I can’t help but compare it to now. Better times. Shops where they’re supposed to be (Burton, Debenhams!). 2008 recession gradually receding into the past. Only one jobcentre. No COVID. No fear of crowds of unmasked people or of my parents dying. A bit of money in my pocket (usually). A bit of hope. Sigh. Thank you for uploading! Maybe the future will be brighter than this.
Indeed. I'm Pompey born and bred who returned as (very) mature student 2 years ago, I was struck by how little my fellow students knew about the city. It's probably the same in most university towns and cities. I wanted to see some Buckland dammit!
Love this! Reminds me of timelapse I did for a uni project a few years ago. Mine wasn't as good as that though! Great job. Love seeing Portsmouth in timelapse.
ThankYou jean-paul de baene ..I know we must let our children grow and go..lol..watching this video just made me wonder why I sm so msny years here,.when everybody else apart from my father is back in Ireland now..but i answered my own question, my father is here since a young boy ,.he ran away from Ireland and joined the British Navy. I lived here in Portsmouth as a child and came back 22yrs ago..so this is very much my home too, I am only realising now,.and I dont imagine I will ever permanently leave. I am sorry your grand daughter has moved so far away from you. .but I am sure you eill hear from her often...p.s I have been through Brugge on the train years ago. :-)
Hey.. This was so brill seeing pompey like this... U should do one in the summer... Pompey comes alive in the summer months... And maybe do one on the bad side of pompey, when i say bad, the people who live in squller and have no hope, the crime, the abuse... Its my family's home town and i love it........
Great to get a glimpse of how it used to be. No offence but all of it got lost in the last 9 years or so. Never thought it'd be offensive to say I'm proud ro be British. Portsmouth for life ❤
i had my master in Portsmouth Uni... I miss this place, thank you so much for this video. all memories back. BTW it would be nice if u can make a summer version of it.
Have lived here all my life. 66 now and have mixed feelings about my home city. Many pluses, the sea, plus easy access to the beautiful countryside of Hampshire. Downside is too much building in an already overcrowded city. Too many buy to lets that have ruined where I live in Southsea. The streets are now filthy as so many tenants seem to have no respect for where they live. Forecourts are dumping grounds for their crap as are the streets. The main shopping centre is like a holding ground for the Jeremy Kyle Show. No decent shops, just chains which are the same everywhere. One real bakery left now in Hilsea, a couple of butchers, no fishmongers apart from 2 in Old Portsmouth. No high street where you can find these real shops. The high streets are now Estate Agents, charity shops, hairdressers, cafes/ restaurants and bars. Not the city I used to enjoy living in.
This is my home, in as far as I live here, but...I am Irish, and I miss everyone aswell as everything Irish. My son sent me this video. It is extraordinarily painful to watch as a mother whose children aren't here...only because I still am.
Dear Fiona, My granddaughter moved to Italy several months ago with her boyfriend, a USA military. In June, after being married they move to the USA. The opposite of your situation. The world is a village, but the next street-corner can be far away! Strenght is what I wish you!
Master-class video! Beatifull town. I am born in Brugge, Belgium. Lived for short periods here and there in Europe and always returned to my hometown that I love and hate.
I have lived in Portsmouth all my life and use to love it but sadly, they just want to keep building everywhere to the point the city is nearly always gridlocked. It is just like most other places in the UK being a shithole.
