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St Mary's Church, Fratton, depicted around 1850, seven years after this particular building, designed by Thomas Ellis Owen, was first opened.
There have been several different churches on this site, the present building replacing the one shown here in the 1880s.
The first recorded mention of a church in this position was in 1170, but recent archaeological investigations have unearthed foundations beneath the church that almost certainly date from Saxon times.
You can click on the image to see a colour image of the 1843 church - use your browser's "BACK" button to return here afterwards. |
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A scene of some real activity, outside the Dog and Duck pub in Fratton Road in 1934, with a police presence and firemen busy in what seems to be some sort of mopping up operation.
Whether there had been a fire, or some sort of water overflow, perhaps from the storm drains, we don't know - if anyone can shed any light on this, please e-mail us and let us know.
Don't forget, we rely on our readers to help us with old images and facts, and to help verify certain things of which there are no accurate records ... |
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Fratton Road, sometime around 1910, and the circus has come to town.
This photograph was taken from about 100 yards south of Kingston Crescent
(you can just make out the large building that marks the corner on the left, a
little way north of the tram. |
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The Froddington Arms, the latest of several pubs to stand on this site, reminds us that Fratton was once a tiny village named Froddingtone (various spellings, as the Saxons and Normans were a bit loose in that department!)
Not a bad old pub, this, with a friendly atmosphere, and if you want to find out more about the pubs of Portsmouth, including the ones that are sadly no more, click on either of these images to visit one of the best Portsmouth-related sites on the Internet. |
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