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COMMENCEMENT OF THE PROPOSED NEW GOVERNMENT ROADS.
— Our readers are aware that the Government intends to do away with the fortifications around Portsmouth and Portsea. Soldiers are now engaged in removing the stone walls from the Mill-dam, which is carted to Southsea Castle to protect that place from the encroaches of the sea. The road across the Mill-dam is marked out, and will be a straight line from Lion-terrace into Cambridge-road, as also is a road from the Royal Engineer offices to the police-station at Landport through the right Demi Bastion of the Portsea lines. Men are employed on this bastion in removing trees, stone, and brick; and the same is taking place at Unicorn Gates, and on one of the demi-bastions of the Portsmouth lines, where a road will be made from Wish-street into the High-street. At the south-end of the Mill-dam excavations are being made for the foundation of the Soldiers’ Gymnasium, the contract for which has been taken by Messrs. Simms and Martin, who will shortly commence the works.
— Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette, Saturday 24 August 1867 source