Nothing to do with bakeries, nor luxury motor cars - this is a compilation of links, a sort of Portsmouth "Roll Of Merit", for sites whose content is primarily concerned with the history of this great city and the people who have helped make it what it is today.

For all my ambitions and intentions for this site, it has to be said that collecting together so much material, cross-referencing and confirming facts and then getting it in here in a form that people will find enjoyable would have been impossible without the Internet and a great deal more difficult without the prior efforts of many of the people whose sites are featured here.

I will continue to add more sites, as and when I come across them and am trying to "segregate" them, with sites by local historians and enthusiasts in one section and more nationally based sites in another, with a section for the "official" sites of particular local attractions and famous people with connections to Portsmouth in the middle.

Please bear with me in the early stages, as this is a fair old task in itself and I have to admit I haven't yet settled on a final display format that I think will serve our purpose best.