Portsmouth and Gosport During Lock-Down

by John Sadden


As a local historian, I have recorded changes in the Portsmouth area for the past 30 years, as well as historic events. Here are some photos taken legitimately (as a carer and whilst exercising) in the Portsmouth area over the past few days.

1. Metal containers arrive at a Gosport car park to provide temporary homes for the homeless:





2. No dogs...or humans at Gosport's Walpole Park playground:




3. Homeless person's message to passers-by - "stay safe" - in Commercial Road, Portsmouth:




4. Tesco, Crasswell Street, Portsmouth:



5.  Rainbow at Meon Road Infants School, Milton, Portsmouth:




6. Social distancing at Tesco's, Fratton, Portsmouth:


7. Disinfecting trollies at Tesco's, Fratton, Portsmouth:



8. Fresh graffiti at Milton, Portsmouth:



9. Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria practise social distancing in a deserted Guildhall Square, Portsmouth:



10. Sealed charity bins, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth:




11. Life goes on at Tesco's, Fratton:



12. Banners at Lee on the Solent, supporting the NHS:



13 Notice in shop in Stoke Road, Gosport:




14. Boot's the Chemist in a deserted High Street, Gosport:



15. Social distancing measures at Poundland, Gosport:



16. Homeless person's sleeping tent, with potted plants, at the Gosport Ferry:



17. Closed promenade, Southsea:




18. Locked Anglican Cathedral, Old Portsmouth:




19. Deserted bus station, The Hard, Portsmouth:



20. Deserted Portsmouth Harbour railway station:


21. Closed Gunwharf:



22 Sign in a Gosport barber's window. The proprietor, George Mason, subsequently died as a result of catching the virus:




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