PORTSMOUTH

Portsmouth also known as Pompey, is home to three hugely important historic ships.

• HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship at the battle of Trafalgar.
  
  
• HMS Warrior the first ironclad warship.
  
  
• The Mary Rose, Henry VIII's warship that sank in the Solent just off of Southsea Castle.

These are all housed at the Historic Dockyard, home of the Royal Navy and also home to the worlds first dry dock. The Historic Dockyard is one of the top ten visitor attractions in the UK.

Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, you can visit the Charles Dickens birthplace museum in the house where he was born in Old Commercial Road, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the pioneering engineer was also born here, unfortunately the street where he lived no longer exists. Many more famous people with links to Portsmouth can be found in our Hall of Fame

But Portsmouth is not just about history, the city is a cosmopolitan, University city home to the University of Portsmouth, with much to offer visitors and residents alike.

Portsmouth has a Premier league football team, a superb seafront area, excellent shopping and a wide range of restaurants, pubs and bars.

Portsmouth is home to the tallest publicly accessible structure in the UK, the Spinnaker Tower built right on the edge of Portsmouth Harbour at Gunwharf Quays take a look at our Spinnaker Tower picture gallery here for some stunning images.

Portsmouth has been used in a number of films and television programmes such as Tomorrow Never Dies (James Bond), Oscar and Lucinda, Making Waves, Silent Witness, Mr Bean and Eastenders. The local area was used extensively in the filming of Tommy, The Who's rock opera.

Portsmouth Hotels
A wide range of Hotels are available in the Portsmouth and Southsea areas, with budgets and styles to suit all.
They range from national chains to small independent boutique Hotels.

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Portsmouth Restaurants
Due to its diverse ethnic mix , Portsmouth can offer an excellent choice of restaurants providing a vast range cuisines from around the world, including Chinese, Greek, Moroccan, Turkish, African, Thai, Indian, Nepalese, Spanish, South American, Mongolian, Italian and traditional English restaurants and pubs.
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Home Movie Roadshow

Next year, BBC TWO is launching a new series which will travel the country in a hunt for the nation’s home movie archive.

This is the nation’s story through the eyes of its most important historians: the British people.

We are looking for any amateur-filmed footage that reflects the events of the last seventy years. It might be footage of the summer of 1976, or the great storm of 1987. It might be street parties celebrating the Coronation, Jubilee or the Royal Weddings. We’re interested in footage of people’s hobbies or the big events in their life – perhaps an important wedding or birthday party. We would love to see any footage of local festivals, or people who perhaps went on to be famous - a local who went on to be a sports or pop star for instance.

We are interested in finding any footage you may have of Royalty, or the building or opening of important buildings in the area. It might be Beatlemania for instance, or political demonstrations. It could be that the footage is very particular to the area – the local industry – from ship building to cider-making.

We are throwing the net very wide, and we are really interested to hear from individuals or organisations about what they think is of importance and what deserves to be seen on the small screen.

If you have old cine, video or film footage we would love to hear from you. We are happy to take it on any format. We guarantee its’ safe return.

At this point, we are still at the research stage – so we are keen to hear about what people have. If any clips are used in the series, then a fee will be paid.

Please contact the production team at

laura.millward@diverse.tv or on 0203 189 3230.

Or you can post your footage to:
Home Movie Roadshow,
1 Ariel Way,
London
W12 7SL