What would modern commuters make of this railway station?

In the marvellous view, right, we are looking east from a new platform under construction at Havant Railway Station. The original station can be seen down the platform with the roofless awning post on the distant right.

The covered rails are part of the original level crossing. Before the construction of the railway bridge at the west end of the station, North Street – on the right, out of view – crossed here into Leigh Road where traffic headed to Horndean and London.

In the distance the footbridge can be seen under which was the junction to London and Brighton.

The semaphore signals – viewed above the footbridge but this side of it – would also be redundant once the colour light signals at the end of the new platform came into operation.

Colin Greetham, from Petersfield, sent me several photographs of local football teams in the 1960s and 70s. Unfortunately they do not have names.

Over the next few days I will be showing a different team, including Petersfield Lads 1956, Somerstown FC 1965 and Waterlooville 1965, so keep an eye out for them.

The team shown below right is McMurdo FC from 1975 when they won the Portsmouth Premier League, a superb standard of football. If you were part of this team and know a few of your team-mates' names, please let me have them.

Last Tuesday I published a view looking north along Stanhope Road, Portsmouth, with the exit from the old dispatch office.

In the view, below left, we see part of the frontage of the actual Evening News office.

The posters in the window read: