Pompey

[anteros_lmc]

Pictures of Pompey from last weekend! Hopefully I'll have a chance to write a wee report of the conference itself soon. In the meantime, here's some pictures of the old gal herself. As you can see, we were blessed with glorious weather!

Obligatory Spinnaker Tower	Portsmouth Point
Spice Island Inn, Portsmouth Point	Spice Island Inn, Portsmouth Point
Portsmouth Cathedral	HMS Victory
HMS Victory upper gun deck	HMS Victory upper gun deck
HMS Victory sick berth	HMS Victory sick berth
HMS Victory lower gun deck	HMS Victory lower gun deck
HMS Victory lower gun deck	HMS Victory lower gun deck
HMS Victory fire buckets	HMS Victory rigging
HMS Victory crest	Royal Naval Club sea dogs
Royal Naval Club library	Royal naval club
The Dolphin "The Oldest Pub in Portsmouth"	Bartholomew propping up the bar at The Dolphin

Comments

[katriona-s.livejournal.com]

Nice pictures! Thank you for sharing them with us. The pub in Portsmouth Point is where I took my supper on my visit 3 years ago. Your photos made me want to visit England again...

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

This was my first visit to Portsmouth and I'm looking forward to going back already!

[vespican.livejournal.com]

Lead photo of Victory shows the fullness of a first rate's hull very well. I seem to remember walking past the Dolphin when I was there in the 80s.
Dave

[nodbear.livejournal.com]

only walking past ? !!

[vespican.livejournal.com]

I think the lot of us were headed somewhere else... someplace that somebody had heard of and had convinced everyone that we should go there. It was a long time ago, and my memory isn't what it was. At least I do seem to recollect seeing the place.
Dave

[nodbear.livejournal.com]

I imagine groups of young sailors still pass it on their way to something else Dave - more likely a club or bar in gunwharf quay which is full of life and glamourous young men and women.
its to us history loving middle aged sorts - speaking for myself anyway - that the fact that this and other inns of like age were where one can imagine that Horatio Archie et al might have drunk just becaues they were there at the time!

it overlooks the cathedral churchyard as seen in anteros_lmc photo in this post and we do know that Captain Mullon of the Cleopatre
was buried there, his funeral paid for and attended by Pellew and his fellow officers, so I think it is highly likely that they went there for post funeral refreshment ...

well its kind of good to be able to be that close

[vespican.livejournal.com]

I do remember having a sense of history when we were there. Don't know if others did or not.
Dave

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

What, you mean you didn't go in?!

[vespican.livejournal.com]

Group decision if I remember right.
Dave

[nodbear.livejournal.com]

grand pictures - thank you for taking them and posting them

it was glorious weather indeed

not to say a glorious experience altogether :D

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

It was just perfect wasn't it?!

[nodbear.livejournal.com]

A perfect few days

the navylads do us proud you know

helped by the benign shade of Ned of course

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

Bartholomew assures me he's only hanging about for the dry roasted nuts.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Dry roasted nuts? Pfffft! He was pie eyed so he was!

[nodbear.livejournal.com]

He was hiccuping - though it might have been an allergy to the lillies on the bar next to him ...

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Lovely pictures!

Portsmouth does lend itself to being photographed.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

It certainly does! It's a fascinating town. So many styles of architecture and remnants of its maritime past.