20 years ago
'Get the habit. Read The News'. And on the left: 'Local news and pictures. The Hampshire Telegraph’.
As I remember, the alleyway on the left led to a covered way and the engine room.
The property on the far left was part of the Post Office sorting room.
I used to wheel large baskets full of newspapers to this office for delivery all over the UK and across the world. I kid you not.
Does anyone recognise the street, on the opposite page, which is believed to be in Emsworth?
It has been suggested that it might be Record Road, running west off Havant Road.
Dorothy Bone from the town’s museum tells me the novelist PG Wodehouse lived in Record Road ‘on and off ’ from 1904 to 1914.
I know producers of postcards used some strange subjects, even funerals.
I wonder if this lady is standing outside Threepwood, where Wodehouse resided sometime before the onset of the First World War?
Perhaps she is his housekeeper, or even his wife? I can see no other reason for making the scene into a postcard. Portsmouth's education leader urged the Royal Navy and the University of Portsmouth to work together to drive up school standards. Councillor Alan Burnett said the institutions should play a bigger role in city education. He advocated allowing schools to use navy and university buildings, facilities and staff. 1926: Rudolph Valentino, 'the world's greatest screen lover', died in New York aged 31. Thousands of women lined his funeral route. 1938: Len Hutton scored what was then a world record Test score of 364 against Australia at The Oval. 1940: The Blitz began as German bombers launched an all-night raid on London. 1960: Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist, died. 1987: French racing driver Didier Pironi was killed in a power boat race off the Isle of Wight. BIRTHDAYS: Shelley Long, actress, 70; Rick Springfield, singer, 70; Edwyn Collins, singer, 60; Shaun Ryder, singer, 57; Mark Butcher, former cricketer, 47; Scott Caan, actor, 43; Glen Johnson, footballer, 35.