Portsmouth in Transition
Author: Robert Hind
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Published: 2017-11-13
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780857043092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPortsmouth was a prominent target for German bombs in the Second World War.Much of the city had to be re-built so that post-war some parts of it wereunrecognisable. However, for a variety of reasons, much of that mid-centuryreconstruction itself grew tired and unloved so that from the 1960s widespreadredevelopment took place.Using contemporary images from the 1960s and 1970s ¿ many sourced from thePortsmouth Evening News ¿ local historian Robert Hind compares the historicscene with current views to show just how much change has occurred within asingle short lifetime. Whole areas of the city changed so drastically in the tenyears between 1968 and 1978 that anyone who left the city before those yearsand returned today would have trouble recognising where they were.Robert Hind has a fascination for Portsmouth which he shares in this totallyabsorbing comparison between the city of today and the city of `the day beforeyesterday¿