Team Locals

"The museum is closed for the winter, so be sure to call in advance. The only exception is Dickens' birthday celebrations on February 7th!"

"After you've enjoyed the museum, walk to the Dickens statue in Guildhall Square. Pictured: Dickens' great great great grandson Oliver, on the day of the statue's unveiling in February 2014."

"Annually, Southsea Common is home to countless family events, including the Southsea Show (which was revived after a years-long hiatus in 2013) and a number of different international circuses."

"In 1138, when Portsmouth was growing through imports/exports, French troops landed and heavily destroyed the town. Townspeople managed to fight them back against the land that is now Southsea Common."

"In 1979, sailors on 16 ships in the Solent around Portsmouth immobilised themselves during a war with France as a strike against the Admiralty over low pay and bad conditions on board the ships."

""To write the history of Portsmouth in the 18th century would involve writing the history of the British Navy" — Charptener's Guide to Portsmouth and Southsea, written in 1913."