Walks in Hampshire: Exploring Old Portsmouth 

Beautifully part of the world historically.

I haven't been to Portsmouth since the 1970s. You've whet my appetite to return!

Hello Richard & Julia! Always heard about Portsmouth by the Sea so was nice to see! The Millennial Walk reminded me of the cable knits that are on Irish sweaters which are supposed to represent the ropes they use in sailing so made sense that it should look like chains for an old shipping port. Loved that really dark old wood building & the tower. Interesting to look at an old sailirs district.

Love love love portsmouth. Your video made me smile. Really nice to watch. Thank you both

The picture on the window was Victory, Nelsons flag ship

Yet another great video and good to see just how well Julia is developing [ing as a presenter.

As an old Portsmouthian,I was a bit nonplussed at your companions lack of homework where in the window of the old Still and West" pub she describes HMS Victory model ship as "The Warrior ". She also admired a house in the Sallyport which had a pulley. In my youth this was a working Ships Chandler's building. You were not show the garrison or the ancient garrison church. Now retired in France it is sad to see how modern innovations, the Millennium chain walk monstrosity, has so defiled an historic part of naval Britain that Henry 8th had constructed. Modern progress I presume.

Stayed very near spice island.another great video richard and Julia .

Nice see Portsmouth with Julia old town nice viewing platform very interested good that was

Hi Richard. Recently discovered your videos and really enjoying them. The Warrior is well worth your time. Fascinating ship. The first iron-hulled (as opposed to iron-clad) warship in the world, bigger, faster and more powerful than anything existing at that time, she (and her sister ship, the Black Prince) and the improved versions that followed were kind of like the atomic bomb of the 19th century. When the Warrior launched, everybody else's fleet became obsolete overnight and naval warfare (at least against Great Britain) became impossible. She got her nickname, 'The Blacksnake,' when Napoleon III came up to the Channel to see this thing his admirals were all going on about. Looking at her through a telescope, dwarfing all the conventional warships around, he is reputed to have remarked, "it looks like a blacksnake has got in amongst the rabbits." Thanks again for doing these videos.

My dad cemented those canons in at old Portsmouth

Portsmouth has two famous historic ships (apart from the remains of the Mary Rose): HMS Victory (Nelson's flag ship), and HMS Warrior, a mid-Victorian ironclad. Both of them are open to the public, and when I visited the dockyard a few years ago a single ticket gave access to both. The one at 1:19 is indeed the Warrior. The one in the pub window is probably intended to be the Victory but looks more like a generalised artist's impression of a warship. It seems to have two gun decks whereas Victory has three and Warrior only one.

That's the Wightlink passenger only catamaran which is hardly "chugging". It goes very fast !

I visited Portsmouth briefly back in 2007

Hi Richard. Sadly, thanks to the Luftwaffe, Old Portsmouth is not quite as old as it used to be. Another thing of interest about Portsmouth Point though is, it's the place where the Tolpuddle Martyrs left England for their voyage to Australia.

The old weather boarded building with the slate roof, is Quebec House, built with public donations in the mid 1600`s it`s most likely the oldest bathing project anywhere.

Lot of love pompies from Morocco❤

Yes...been there

HMS Victory was the oldest ship on active service in WW2. Used as a training ship.

You should have had a pint in the Still and West

I want to be there.

A great walk Richard. HMS Victory was designed by naval architect Sir Thomas Slade. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Slade

Ive not been to Portsmouth for years (I’ve seen some gigs in the guildhall and recorded a choral cd at the cathedral) but this area is unknown by me. This area reminds me very much of the Barbican in Plymouth which was one of the few areas spared by the bombs in the Second World War with its cobbles and lovely buildings.

Richard, being a gentleman, refers to the red light district of Pompey. The Portsmouth Prostitutes were known as "Brutes", being particularly coarse. Near the Sally Port Gate (by the cathedral) was the "romantically" named Grope-cunt Lane. A coarser, but more honest age.

Where was the spot that Helen Duncan was arrested for witchcraft? Eaglegards...

SEIZING LIFE (I. K. BRUNEL) In the troubled reign of 3rd King George This day is born a Portsmouth son New seconds tIck then seem to wait With Solent air clean lungs inflate To rise to never be outdone With fervent aim great dreams to forge... JB

I would like to dye my hair purple....but I haven't got any😒

Why the camera shows your bold head so often, instead the view around???

I usually love your videos Richard, but you come to the very place of my growing-up and are so woefully superficial. So much goes on in that little space between the entrance and the Camber. Two examples, you pointed to the sailing club, Portsmouth Sailing Club to be precise, but once upon a time a consulate and at other times a haunt of smugglers. Then, you missed W.L. Wyllie's earie from which the great marine artist surveyed the channel down past the Hamilton Bank. Much mirth when HMS Nelson ran aground on that feature back in the thirties... I could go on, you walked right past the gates of the Pickford's Sheds, still with the cobbles and drains for stabling their dray horses, these days they store antique racing yachts of the Victory Class. You actually looked at the old pilot station but neither of you realised it's significance. Do they still protect the corners of buildings with cannon stuck into the ground? They always had one trunion hacked off. This was supposed to prevent the gun from being seized by rioters and turnec on the "great and the good." The task of hacking off those trunions was given to sailors in the "glasshouse" I was told... Sorry, but a wasted opportunity. The people of The Point historically regarded themselves as separate from the city itself, go back and find a guide who truly knows and loves Old Portsmouth. You will be amazed.