EAW003015 ENGLAND (1946). Ports Bridge, Ports Creek and prefabricated housing on Cosham Recreation Ground, Hilsea, 1946

Southdown Motor Services Hilsea East bus garage and coach station. Designed in art deco style by local architects A E Cogswell & Son, it measured 270ft wide by 220 ft deep and opened in 1934 with space for 75 vehicles. It was subsequently expanded. The building has now been demolished and replaced with an apartment complex.

Site behind petrol station of Southdown Motor Services Hilsea West garage opened in 1953 with space for 43 vehicles.

This line of trees marked the course of the Portsdown & Horndean Tramway

Hilsea Depot (Southdown Buses)

Trolleybus.

What is this building on the Hilsea Lines ramparts?

Livestock 'on the hoof'.

I do not know what it was called at this time (suspect the building school) but was known as the Portsmouth Technical High School during my attendance between 1966-73.

Rugby Camp.

Hilsea Lines - part of (Palmeston defences)

Aeroplanes parked on the apron of Portsmouth Southsea Aerodrome

Hilsea Lido

Huksae depot for Southdown Buses