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Image taken 1963/4

Taken in 1963/4.IN the background is the College of Art

Judging from the other pictures this was a load of cauliflowers.

Greetham Street with St Lukes Vicarage - now no longer there - on the left, the Council offices under construction and the old civil defence building that was on the right.

These were the new council offices in progress.

St Lukes Church and Hall with the flats beyond the railway line in the distance. Probably taken from the under construction council offices

St Lukes School beyond the new dual carriageway taken from where the new council offices were being built.

I believe this is the western end of the high level platform at Portsmouth Station.

This shows the sidings and the high level platforms for 'Portsmouth Harbour, Gosport Ferry and The Isle of Wight' . The image was taken from either my brother's or my bedroom in St Lukes Vicarage

The sage green car has been identified as a MG F-Type manga MG F-Type Magna was the first straight six-cylinder engine sportscar from Abingdon-on-Thames. It came with various body options. The matching number sportscar we see here is a rare Salonette, of which only 390 examples were made...

Hampshire Fatstock Society, Greetham St. Above this was a boxing club / gym (but not as we know them today). Some lorries had rails that would extend over the pavement and into the premises so quarters of beef would be swung across the pavement...

The scarf being worn was Portsmouth Polytechnic - you would see hundreds of those around...

This looks as though taken in the winter so probably late 1963 or early 1964. A demonstration was taking place and a number of police were on duty. Trolly bus wires still remain.

Commercial Road with LDB which I knew as Landports and Landport Road off to the right beyond the store. The station entrance would have been out of picture to the right.

Greetham Street looking east with jacob's Ladder bridge on the far left, St Lukes Vicarage garden where the railings are and The Magnet PH - I believe it was closed as a pub by the time this was taken. Beyond the pub was a local shop.

The house with two doors used to be a pub. In 1963 St Lukes Parish had over 80 licensed premises or lapsed premises in its small area. There were eight pubs between the church in Greetham St and the Guildhall - some 300m !

The modern building was the College of Art built in the late 50s early 60s with the Guildhall tower rising above.

In the distance are St Lukes Church and School with Greetham Street being to the left. This area remained waste ground until the redevelopment that included a car park and council offices and The Navigators Pub

Taken in 1974

Taken in 1974