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✒️ Fiction
The One Is Just a Boltzmann Brain
✨ Curated bookmarks
Blackwater aquariums
Dystrophic lakes
Maker projects
Useful software
💻 Technology
Deploy Obsidian to Netlify
Digital Gardens: A New (Old) Approach to Personal Websites
Don't step off the happy path
Small web revival
Vary the icon in a Quartz callout
🗂️ Backlog
1767: An Old Accustomed Shop
1797: Agent for French Prisoners
Charles George Harper
James Lind
La Mancha Negra
Notes re the excessively hot summer in England
Repugnant market
Thomas Babington Macaulay
🗝️ Antiquaria
1772: An Uncommon Kind of Animal
1797: The Only Ships of the North Sea Fleet That Did Not Mutiny
1807: Huntingdon Assizes
Conscientér affirmo
John Pory's letters
Jul 1763: Salisbury Assizes
Kenneth MacKenzie of Dundonnell
Royal Naval Exhibition 1891 Official Catalogue
The Last British Peer to Die a Felon's Death
The Swallows of London
The Wilful Murder of George Burnham
🧪 Weird science
Exploding salt
Jelly for a consumption
Some account of the dugong - tastes like… beef?
To soften iron or steel that's brittle
🪢 Portsmouth
⚓ Nelson Ward
1779: Samuel Norris, Blacksmith
1834: A Brick and Timber Store
🌳 Hilsea
1538: The Dissolution of the Monasteries
1758-1792: Troop Movements at Hilsea
1813: Purchase for Works at Hilsea Act
1880: Kelly's Directory
Apr 1861: Census, Coach and Horses
Apr 1868: A Most Substantial Platform
Apr 1876: Sudden Death of a Pensioner
Apr 1878 Death of Charles Martin
Apr 1881: Census, Coach and Horses
Apr 1882: License Transfers
Aug 1756: A Barracks for 2,000 Men
Aug 1756: Admiral Byng Is Turned Back
Aug 1766: In The Possession of Mr Richard Watmore
Aug 1852: We Think His Drinking With Him a Highly Imprudent Act
Aug 1862: Assaulting a Landlady
Aug 1871: Three Lives Lost
Aug 1891: Last Will and Testament of Frederick Bull
Coach and Horses
Dec 1765: The Landlord, in the Necessary House, with the Pistol
Dec 1772: The Children Cried for Beer
Dec 1824: Died Suddenly in the Accommodation Van
Dec 1830: A Groundless Complaint
Dec 1834: Mystery pub to let
Dec 1863: Mysterious Death After Fall from Waggon
Dec 1869: John Lovelock Adjudged Bankrupt
Dec 1870: Grand Reopening?
Dec 1870: License Transfer Refused
Duncan's Head
Feb 1766: Stealing Diverse Sheep
Feb 1768: Murder at the Halfway Houses
Feb 1834: Found Drowned in Hilsea Pond
Feb 1851: Shocking Waggon Accident near Hilsea
Feb 1863: Death from Apoplexy
Feb 1871: License Transfer
Feb 1873: License Transfers
Fountain Gardens
George Inn
Green Post
Hilsea Barracks
Jan 1813: Soldiers of the Inverness Militia Court-Martialled
Jan 1825: Mr Cox, Chair Maker
Jan 1836: Lets Try That Again
Jan 1857: They Even Sold The Dog
Jan 1862: Thirteen Pounds Weight of Bacon
Jan 1868: Magistrates Hear Case of Carpenter Assault
Jan 1874: Discovery of Infant Body in Hilsea Pond
Jul 1823: Death of William Maynard
Jul 1835: At the Back of Hilsea
Jul 1839: Found Dead in a Field of Standing Oats
Jun 1628: Tresspasses Upon Her Rights
Jun 1841: Census, Coach and Horses, Hilsea
Jun 1878 License Transfers
King's Head
Mar 1840: Seventy-Two Elm Trees
Mar 1851: Census, Coach and Horses
Mar 1864: Stamped on the Iron Part With His Initials
Mar 1872: Theft by an Artilleryman
Mar 1889: Charge Against a Hussar Sergeant
May 1748: Leased for a Thousand Years
May 1759: Joseph Tankard, Deserter
May 1797: Three Thousand at Hilsea
May 1850: The Summer Season
May 1862: Murder; the gipsies are killing my husband
May 1866: Tenders Invited for War Department Property
May 1871: Lawn Turf for Sale
May 1872: Licence Transfers
May 1874: A Reckless Driver
Nov 1818: Selling beer without a license
Nov 1830: Leaving the Said Premises
Nov 1856: Public House Available for Lease
Nov 1881: Publican Fined for Sunday Trading Offence
Oct 1834: Sale of the Materials of the Battle of Minden
Oct 1835: A Hundred Lots of Good Oak and Fir
Oct 1835: Mystery pub to let
Oct 1853: Found, King Charles Spaniel
Oct 1855: Much Respected by All Who Knew Him
Oct 1863: An Ungrateful Lodger
Oct 1869: Licensing
Oct 1870: Destruction By Fire
Portsbridge & Hilsea Lines
Sep 1825: The Negro Boy
Sep 1866: The Daring Cash-Box Robbery at Portsmouth
Sep 1867: An Ungrateful Act
Sep 1868: Shocking Suicide
The Battle of Minden
The Horse and Jockey
Paulsgrove
1790: Selling Great Horsea
1812: Hunting at Great Horsea
🐑 Wymering
🦆 Baffins
🛤️ Cosham
17 Stapleton Road, Copnor
1281: John of Botiller
1614: The Rectory of Wymering
1705: A Most Violent Storm
1726: Johnny Gibson's Hole
1730-1770 Plan and Profiles for Building Barracks
1756: The Duke of Cumberland Visits Portsbridge (Twice)
1760: Lord Loudoun Arrives
1760: On Gosport Beach
1761: Gross Belgians breathe a better air than we
1761: Three Seamen Caught
1762: Deserters, One Guinea Apiece
1763: Noxious and Unhealthy Vapours
1763: William Neller Arrested at Hilsea Barracks
1764: An Entertainment for the Officers
1767: The Creditors of Matthew Snook
1767: The Wife of a Boatswain
1768: A Sickly Spot in England
1768: Windmill Fire
1770: Getting from L to P
1773 Parking Enforcement Officer
1773: George III's Journey to Portsmouth
1773: Twelve Hundred Laid Up At Hilsea
1775: A Grand Firework
1781: A Remarkable Mode of Kidnapping
1781: Gross Irregularity and Barbarities Committed by the Military
1781: Troop Movements
1790: A Stone Bridge of One Arch
1790: Lost Dog
1792: Fountain Inn, Maybe
1793: A List of Game-Certificates
1793: The Unwholesomeness of Hilsea Barracks
1795: Prisoners Carried to Hilsea Barracks
1795: Sheep
1797: A Ball of Fire Fell upon a Stack of Hay
1797: A Career of Intoxication
1797: A Vast Dock
1798 Frivolous Assault
1798: Getting from L to P
1801: A New Adjutant
1803: A New Adjutant
1803: Stephen Carroll, A Terrible Example
1807: A New Commandant
1808: Mad Dogs and Officers
1808: To Be Majors in the Army
1810: Morbid Anatomy Specimens
1811: Highway Robbery
1812: Turnpike for Rent
1816: French Silks
1816: Starvation, Gosport
1816: Violent Gale, Sunday Last
1820: Great Salterns
1823: Rebuild Turnpike House
1825: Lieutenant Peter Mears of the Royal Marines
1825: Resurrection Men
1828: A Gavel-Fronted Guard-House
1829: Pull Down Such Bridges as May Be Necessary
1829: The Trial of the Staceys
1832: Buckland Brewery
1832: Marriage of Samuel Neat and Lucy Seal
1833: Population 578
1839: Robson's Commercial Directory of the Seven Counties
1846: The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
1859: Directory of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
1862: Progress and Challenges at the Hilsea Lines
1871: Omnibus Dispute
1871: Public Transport
1872: Local Liquidation Cases
1877: Rifle Competition
1878: Found Drowned
1878: Milton Gaol
1878: Not Allowed to Sell His Necessaries
1879: Found Drowned
1881: Artillery Driver Dodges Conviction
1884: Last of the Old Whips
1888: Drunk in charge of... a steam traction engine?
1894: Hilsea Canteen Manager Accused
1931: Start of a New Era
AE Cogswell
Buckland House
George John Scale
Government House
Jan 1872: Licence Transfers
Jan 1879: Fatal Railway Accident
John Felton
John Ridge
Portsdown Hill
Portsea Island Union workhouse
Rev. George Cuthbert
Robert Ker Porter
Sir James McGrigor
The Blue Posts
The floating dock
The other rebuilding of The Blue Posts
The Strata of Portsmouth
Feb 1881: A Discreditable Soldier
May 1881: Petty Theft
Oct 1879: The Shocking Death of Mr Stratton
William Kneller
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15 Oct 2024
The Strata of Portsmouth
19th-Century
London-Portsmouth-Road
People/Charles-George-Harper
Cosham
Hilsea
North-End
Landport
Buckland
Victorian-Suburbs
Portsmouth-History
Regency-Architecture
Urban-development
Historical-Fortifications
15 Oct 2024
May 1874: A Reckless Driver
19th-Century
Cosham
Fareham
Hilsea
Landport
Portsea
Portsmouth
Sarisbury-Green
Southwick
Titchfield
Widley
Wymering
Crime
15 Oct 2024
Apr 1876: Sudden Death of a Pensioner
19th-Century
Cosham
Hilsea
Inquest
Death
15 Oct 2024
1880: Kelly's Directory
19th-Century
Alverstoke
Cosham
Fareham
Hilsea
London
Portsdown
Portsmouth
Potwell
Widley
Winchester
Wymering
15 Oct 2024
1871: Public Transport
19th-Century
Cosham
Hilsea
Landport
North-End
15 Oct 2024
1878: Not Allowed to Sell His Necessaries
19th-Century
Alma
Balaklava
Basingstoke
Cosham
Hilsea
Portsmouth
Sebastopol
Southsea
Crime
15 Oct 2024
1879: Found Drowned
19th-Century
Copnor
Cosham
Fratton-Road
Hilsea
Kingston-Cross
Lake-Road
Landport
Portsmouth
Inquest