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Old 19-06-20, 17:34
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Wow, this is a blast from the past!
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Please don't spend any more time on this. I have searched my tree and there's no mention of Brighton Street, Portsmouth anywhere there, so this must have been to do with someone elses tree. I'm afraid I don't remember anything about it
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Merry, it was great digging out the maps, so don't worry!
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Old 19-06-20, 22:48
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That's good to hear Elizabeth
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Old 20-06-20, 07:59
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Well, I had people in Brighton Street. My grandfather was born there! Can't think why I missed this ten years ago.

If you walk through surviving Victorian streets in Portsmouth, you can spot the gaps in the terraces where bombs fell. Far more damage was done by the council in the sixties. Whole streets of - admittedly inferior - housing were torn down and the street plan completely changed. It is impossible to stand in Portsmouth today and recognise where some of those forgotten roads have been (unless you possess a mobile phone to access those overlays!)
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Phoenix, which part of Portsmouth was this? I have maps for Central Portsmouth 1896, Southsea 1896, Portsmouth North End 1896, Old Portsmouth and Gosport 1896 and Portsea 1896.
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Old 20-06-20, 09:38
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I think it's central Portsmouth - just south of the Town (P & S) Station.

They later moved to the Buckland area.

I bought most of those maps for my cousin's husband as he grew up in Portsmouth and I have a very nice map section that I took as a photocopy in the 1970s from the Guildhall library before it had the local studies section.
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Old 20-06-20, 10:02
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I think it was Brighton Street and not Brighton Road.
It is in St Mary and St Barnabas Ward in 1901 and I have found it due north of the station running north-south. It is parallel to the larger road Charles Street to the east which runs north from Arundel Street to Church Road.
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Old 20-06-20, 11:19
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Dur, that would make sense. Most of my lot are in St Mary or Charles Dickens Ward. My aunt's old doctor was in the house next to that in which Charles Dickens was born.
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Old 20-06-20, 11:44
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Temple Street is still there. Now to the east of it is St Faith's Road, running parallel.

In 1896 there was Temple Street, then, going east, Mollers Street then Brighton Street, all parallel to one another.
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