TThhee PPoorrttssmmoouutthh EEnnccyyccllooppaaeeddiiaa A History of Places and People in Portsmouth, with an Index to Streets compiled by Alan King Historical Collections Librarian Portsmouth City Libraries 2011 Last additions 25th March 2011 © Portsmouth City Council 2011 CONTENTS The Encyclopaedia is arranged alphabetically, with certain items grouped together under more general headings, e.g. Barracks, Churches, Fortifications, Public Houses, Schools. For places, the main sources are maps of the 1860s and 1890s, while information about people has been obtained from various sources, as indicated in the individual entries. Both places and people have also been indexed from Smitten City (1945), a booklet containing photographs of wartime visitors and air raid damage. The maps of 1861-5 Included is a key to the 1:500 maps of Portsmouth 1861-5, listing all streets, courts, pubs, etc., with their map nos., e.g. 83.8.21. Only that part of Portsmouth then built up was surveyed, as shown here: * Old Portsmouth * Portsea Town, except the W end of Queen Street * The northern parts of the Dockyard, as it existed in the 1860s * Landport, including the present area of the City Centre * Mile End and Flathouse * Part of Stamshaw * The Kingston Cross area * W part of North End (before it was built up) * Buckland * Fratton * Southsea, incl. Havelock Park, Nelsonville, St. Helen‘s Park List of maps completely indexed Only one significant map remains unindexed: 83.7.19, which includes the W end of Queen Street and the S part of the Dockyard. 83.4.17 (1861) Rudmore/Stamshaw 83.4.18 (1861) Kingston Cross area/North End 83.4.22 (1861) Rudmore/Mile End/Buckland 83.4.23 (1861) Kingston/Buckland/North End 83.7.14 (1861) H.M. Dockyard 83.7.15 (1861) Portsea Town 83.7.20 (1861) Portsea Town 83.7.24 (1861) Portsea Town 83.7.25 (1865) Portsea Town 83.8.1 (1865) Flathouse 2 83.8.2 (1865) Flathouse/Mile End/Buckland/Landport 83.8.3 (1865) Buckland 83.8.6 (1865) Landport 83.8.7 (1865) Mile End/Landport 83.8.8 (1861) Buckland/Landport 83.8.11 (1865) Landport 83.8.12 (1865) Landport 83.8.13 (1865) Landport/Fratton 83.8.16 (1865) Landport 83.8.17 (1865) Landport 83.8.18 (1865) Landport/Fratton 83.8.21 (1861) Landport/Southsea 83.8.22 (1865) Landport/Southsea 83.8.23 (1861) Landport/Fratton/Southsea 83.11.4 (1865) Old Portsmouth 83.11.5 (1861) Old Portsmouth/Landport 83.11.9 (1865) Old Portsmouth 83.11.10 (1861) Old Portsmouth 83.11.14 (1861) Old Portsmouth 83.11.15 (1861) Old Portsmouth/Southsea 83.11.20 (1861) Southsea 83.12.1 (1865) Southsea/Landport 83.12.2 (1861) Southsea 83.12.3 (c.1861) Southsea 83.12.6 (1865) Southsea 83.12.7 (1865) Southsea 83.12.8 (c.1861) Southsea 83.12.11 (1865) Southsea 83.12.12 (1865) Southsea 83.12.13 (c.1861) Southsea 83.12.16 (1865) Southsea 83.12.17 (1865) Southsea 83.12.18 (1861) Southsea 83.12.21 (1861) Southsea 83.12.22 (1861) Southsea 83.12.23 (1861) Southsea 83.16.1 (1861) Southsea 83.16.2 (1861) Southsea 83.16.3 (1861) Southsea 83.16.6 (1861?) Southsea 83.16.7 (1861) Southsea 3 The Maps of 1895-6 The survey of 1895-6, on the 1:2,500 scale, was described as the Second Edition. The First Edition of these maps was surveyed between 1856 and 1868, but a revised edition of many sheets was also published in 1873-4. In 1896 the eastern side of Portsea Island was still undeveloped and Hilsea and the parts of the present city north of Portscreek were not included within the Borough boundary, as it then was. Close to Cosham station there are the first signs of suburban life, but otherwise the scene is still largely rural. The urban developments of Paulsgrove, Wymering, Cosham, Drayton and Farlington are still some years in the future. List of 1895-6 maps indexed so far 75.7 (1895) Portsdown Hill N of Paulsgrove 75.8 (1895) Portsdown Hill N of Wymering/Cosham/Widley 75.11 (1895) Paulsgrove/Horsea Island 75.12 (1895) Wymering/Cosham/Widley/Portsdown 75.15 (1895) Portchester/Tipner/Portsmouth Harbour/Horsea Island 75.16 (1895) Hilsea/Horsea/Portscreek 76.5 (1895) Portsdown/Widley (Most of this sheet is outside the City boundary.) 76.9 (1895) Cosham/Drayton/Farlington/Portsdown 76.10 (1895) Farlington (Most of this sheet is outside the City boundary.) 76.13 (1895) Hilsea/Langstone Harbour/Portscreek/Farlington 83.3 (1896) Tipner/Portsmouth Harbour/Whale Island 83.4 (1896) Portsmouth Harbour/Whale Island/Stamshaw 83.8 (1896) East of Fratton/Kingston Road inc. Kingston & parts of Fratton & Buckland 83.12 (1896) Southsea (E part) 84.1 (1896) Great Salterns/Highgrove/Langstone Harbour 84.9 (1896) Eastney/Milton 4 The Districts of Portsmouth Old Portsmouth refers to the original town of Portsmouth at the harbour entrance, founded in the 1180s. During the eighteenth century the population of Portsmouth Common (from 1792 the Town of Portsea) overtook that of the original town. Halfway Houses (later Landport) grew up around the road to London from the mid- eighteenth century onwards and the development of Southsea started just E of the original town of Portsmouth about 1809. Portsea Island contained the Parish of Portsea, from which the Parish of Portsmouth was separated in 1320, the southern part of the parish of Wymering, which included Hilsea, and the extra-parochial district of Great Salterns. The Town of Portsea known in 2004 simply as Portsea was a small part of the Parish of Portsea. To avoid confusion, streets etc. in the area of modern Portsea are shown as being in Portsea Town. Mile End is the area from the N end of the pedestrian area of Commercial Road up to Kingston Crescent. Rudmore is the area around the Continental Ferry Port. It was already an industrial area in the 1860s. Stamshaw is a residential area NE of Rudmore. In the 1860s development of Stamshaw had not proceeded very far. Kingston has a long and complex history. At different times it has had several centres, principally around St. Mary‘s Church and at Kingston Cross. It is interspersed with parts of Buckland. (See the entries under Kingston and Buckland in the Encyclopaedia.) In the 1860s Copnor, one of the oldest settlements on Portsea Island, was a separate village. Havelock Park was a ―Victorian villa estate‖ developed gradually in Southsea after 1857. Those parts of Portsmouth north of Ports Creek were not included within the Borough of Portsmouth until 1920 (Cosham, Wymering and the Paulsgrove area) or 1932 (Drayton and Farlington, plus a small strip of land adjoining Portchester). Note: the boundary between Landport and Southsea is taken as Brunswick Road/Hyde Park Road (approximately the modern Winston Churchill Avenue). These roads appear on sheet 83.12.1 (1865). 5 The Encyclopaedia Please note that certain types of establishment are grouped together, for example Barracks, Breweries, Churches, Fortifications, Public Houses, Schools A ABERCROMBIE STREET 83.8.11 (1865) Landport runs E from Flathouse Road to Conway Street Turning on S: Nile Passage Turning on N: Nile Passage Zion Chapel on NW corner at junction with Flathouse Road. Independent. Seats for 250. Abercrombie Street is recorded in the 1841 census. In the 1939 directory it is recorded as running from Conway Street to Unicorn Road. ABERDARE AVENUE (1939 directory) Cosham Runs from Penrhyn Avenue (no thoroughfare). ABINGDON ROAD (1939 directory) Southsea Runs from 162 Somers Road to 26 Northumberland Road. ACORN COTTAGES 83.8.18 (1865) Landport A pair of cottages on the N side of Fratton Street ADAIR ROAD 84.9 (1896) Eastney Runs N from St. George‘s Road to Highland Road. Crosses Tokar Street. Adair Road is recorded in the 1939 directory as running from 21 St George‘s Road to 130 Highland Road. ADAME‘S ROAD 83.8 (1896) Fratton Runs N from Clive Road to St. Mary‘s Road. Crosses Brookfield Road Adames Road is recorded in the 1939 directory as running from 92 St. Mary‘s Road to 105 Clive Road. ADDINGTON TERRACE North End Addington Terrace is recorded in London Road in the 1939 directory. ADDISON ROAD (1939 directory) Southsea Runs from 95 Lawrence Road (no thoroughfare). 6 ADELAIDE STREET 83.8.8 (1861) Buckland Runs E from Beeston Street. Also on 83.8 (1896), with South Road on N side. Adelaide Street is recorded in the 1939 directory as running from Beeston Street (no thoroughfare). ADELAIDE TERRACE 83.8.8 (1861) Buckland 7 houses on S side of Beeston Street ADELAIDE VILLA 83.8.8 (1861) Buckland On S side of Beeston Street ADMIRALTY ROAD (1939 directory) Portsea Town Runs from Bonfire Corner to Queen Street. ADNAMS Ham & Bacon Warehouse, 55 High Street The building is depicted in Charpentier‘s panorama of 1842. AERODROME APPROACH ROAD (1939 directory) Copnor Runs from Eastern Road AGINCOURT ROAD 83.8 (1896) & 83.4 (1896) Buckland Runs N from Sultan Road (83.8) to Elm Road Agincourt Road is recorded in the 1939 directory as running from 125 Sultan Road to 84 Elm Road. AIR RAIDS See WAR (WORLD WAR II) AIREDALE VILLA 83.12.12 (1865) Southsea House on S side of Elm Grove/W side of N branch of The Thicket ALBANY BEACH MANSIONS (1939 directory) Southsea In South Parade ALBANY NURSERY 83.12.12 (1865) Southsea On S side of Elm Grove, W corner of Albany Road ALBANY ROAD 83.12.12 (1865) Southsea Runs S from Elm Grove On E side from N to S: Eton House, Kensington Villas (pair of houses), Crimean Villa, Vienna Villa, Malvern Villas (pair of houses) On W side from N to S: Albany Nursery, Albany Villas (pair of houses), Enfield Villas (pair of houses), Staunton Villas (pair of houses), Clifton Villas (pair of houses), The Thicket In 1865 Albany Road was not yet completed through to Nelson Road.