Old Portsmouth

A fine foursome, Keith!

Beautiful collage Keith.

Very interesting particularity of this city!
Excellent collage, Keith!
Thanks for the notes

Very attractive views of the city. I like the cathedral tower and the Spinnaker tower and the tower blocks too. I especially like the Hot Walls and the tower you have included there.

The tower that you can see behind the hot walls is actually called Tower House. It used to be a complex of stores, chambers andwharves but it was bought by W.L.WYLLIE (the famous Marine Artist) in 1906. He converted it into a dream house for a maritime artist. Here he could sit and paint, so close to the water's edge that he could almost touch the ships passing by. He lived there with his family until he died in 1931. I don't know who owns it now.

A link here if you have time to look: www.memorialsinportsmouth.co.uk/old-portsmouth/wyllie.htm

nice to see........well done

beautiful works!

Jolie carte postale de Old Portsmouth qui donne envie de visiter la cité!*

Hmmm...I´ve seen this place here before...Nick Weall?
A lovely collage of this town and especially the hot walls look interesting!
Thanks for sharing Keith

Schitterend Samengevoegd Keith met terugkerende elementen

Fabulous collage Keith. I recognise each picture and can't wait to visit again. I especially like the Hot Walls picture, where we can also see the well designed lamp lights.

Very well done Keith.

I thought you'd recognise these scenes Rosa..........glad you approve.

A beautiful set of pictures. A lot of nice different sights. Thanks for showing !

Eine ausgezeichnete Kollage! Eine gute Arbeit!

A really nice collage here Keith. Portsmouth is such an interesting place. I have only been around the harbours though and the Historic dockyard. Love all these here. Well done.
Keep safe. Herb

A fine selection.

Thank you all very much for taking the trouble to view and comment. Much appreciated.

Very nice collection, Keith! The Hot Walls - that's a very creative name. I suppose it's very protected from wind, or something like that. The whole scene looks like it could be in Morocco, with the reddish sand and what I assume is an old fort.

Thanks Diane...........glad you like tthem.

The Hot Walls are so named because it's a sun-trap - the walls retain the heat and throw it back out again. Nearly all this part of Portsmouth was fortified to protect the entrance to the harbour.

A very well composed collage, it's good to see Old Portsmouth in good weather! The only (brief) time I was there it rained...

Thanks very much Gudrun..............I'm pleased you like it. Are there any countries left in the world you haven't been to yet?

Plenty;-) And many of them I don't want to visit....

Ha, ha................I'm sure you'll be off on many more adventures in due course. You just have to be patient a while longer :-)

I'm resigned to that;-) At the moment I'm trying- without success so far- to get a vaccination slot, but they say we'll have a deluge of vaccines by June, so I'm hopeful.