PORTSMOUTH - CITY OF SAILORS, 1965

A fascinating glimpse of Portsmouth in the mid-sixties, celebrating our Naval Heritage and looking at the redevelopment of the City.

[@michaelgibbs3517]

Thanks for the video. I'm an old pompey boy and i was so surprised to see myself, my brothers, mum and gran at 7.42 of the video. Nobody in my family had any idea this was filmed, it made my mums day when i showed her.

[@deathseekergibbsy]

My grandma, uncles, and dad are in this vid between 7:41 - 7:43. My grandad was a sailor aboard the Mohawk. Such an interesting glimpse at my family from so long ago

[@SuzyQ334]

Thanks for an interesting upload. I wish our school history lessons had included the fact that our city and our Royal Navy were pretty important to Britain as a whole. I swear a whole generation of kids grew up not really knowing that. A random school visit with a bored teacher to HMS Victory' didn't quite cut it for us teenage girls. But as a kid, I loved Southsea and sitting on the beach watching the ships pass by - the battle-grey warships, the Sealink and IOW ferries and the Hovercraft which used to park up on the beach not far from Clarence Pier. Pompey definitely wasn't a bad place to grow up in and has never got the recognition it deserved IMHO. Happy Tuesday one and all, from an old Pompey girl in Sydney, Australia. 😄

[@dcmexplores]

Thank you for sharing this video. I’m from Portsmouth and it’s a great insight in how much it’s changed over the years!

[@dylanedwards5348]

If your from portsmouth you probably do drugs

[@dcmexplores]

@@dylanedwards5348 this is Portsmouth in UK🇬🇧 NOT America!

[@lordmfitzgerald3rd754]

I know! I can’t believe Guildhall! I was born in 1990, left in 2014. Never ever knew there was a massive road in front of it!

[@lordmfitzgerald3rd754]

@@dylanedwards5348 if your from any country on the planet….you probably do drugs 🤣

[@TheBritishbeeman]

@@dylanedwards5348 yeah we buy them from your mum…..

[@paulbradley3373]

Nice - thanks for sharing! My dad was Navy - I was born in Pompey in '64, so I would have been a year old when this was filmed.

[@dcoul1]

Such great pieces of film, these Look at Life ones! And a lovely snapshot of good old Pompey!

[@dashiellharris7433]

So sad to see the old streets demolished and replaced with those depressing slabs of view-ruining "homes"

[@PompeyBoy66]

Thanks from an Eastney boy now landlocked in the Midlands.

[@janeweedon6335]

Hubby was 11 when this film was made, soon to live in Copnor. The story in the late sixties was you could drink in a different pub every day of the year in the city. Long gone days.

[@colincheater4016]

I was ten years old when this was shot, great memories of Southsea shops and Commercial Road

[@fozzy1004]

25 years ago in Pompey you called walk in any direction for 5 minutes and find a pub, now it more like half hour if your lucky.

[@malcellison8831]

Yep. I was born in Fratton and there were four pubs within a 2/3 minute walk from my house. There’s one left: the Newcome Arms.

[@andrewmiles2541]

Sorry but even now if you walk for more than ten mins you'll find s pub.. Dinlo

[@miamiglia]

The Elden arms being a great one 👌

[@davidyoung9561]

Lived here all my life and now hate it. Its a dump full of chavs. It's more like a run down ghetto nowadays.

[@SuzyQ334]

Wasn't there an old saying about Portsmouth that it had a pub on every corner? I left before I was old enough to drink so I can't say pubs were on my radar. 🤣

[@SharonD369]

Wow my home town 👌👌👌

[@michaelsalt4565]

This is my favourite KZbin video

[@FriedEggsWithChips]

This video is in great quality! Some parts could have been filmed yesterday if it wasn’t for a few minor details. It was nice to see the Dockyard as it was then, the old Guildhall square, and old Woolworths!

[@markrobinson8539]

Excellent, thank you so much for sharing this. I was going to school in Pompey then - 1965 and I was 13.

[@jimrichmond4734]

Same here Mark

[@christopheremms2891]

The best years of my life. I joined up in 1960. Apart from fantastic world travel Pompey was my home and I still consider it to be. "Can I touch your collar for luck?" was a common request from the lovely Pompey ladles. I doubt if the students that have replaced us are as popular.

[@TheJamster1234567]

I dont understand what has changed. I'm assigned in Portsmouth and I have been told not to wear uniform in the local shops because of safety concerns. What happend I will never know.

[@ENGBriseB]

Mostly sailors aboard a HMS ships come from all over the parts of Great Britain. Portsmouth home of the British Royal Navy. Great pictures.

[@alanprior7650]

I was born at St.Mary's hospital in February 1970.Lived in Leigh Park until 1977. Then moved to Portchester. Moved back to Pompey (Horsea Island) in the 90's. This video talks about Queen Street and naval outfitters...Hawkes & Jeeves still had a shop in 2000s.

[@MintiesPoopin]

The footage is surprisingly clear

[@mrdjs0]

Still a great city, this is fascinating, thanks for uploading.

[@marekward6202]

That's really great. Thanks Matt :)

[@leighparkboy]

Thanks for sharing

[@amandeepv]

Thank you for this

[@fossil9559]

Thank you for sharing ( my birth city in my birth year )

[@secretarynlcs2627]

Great video - thanks for sharing

[@insertpienow]

Thank You for Sharing Sir........

[@paularyan4604]

Also remember seeing off & welcoming back ships

[@robertbrown3413]

The demolishing at 5.00 looks like the area near Somers Rd. Bridge.

[@gosporthodsonline7274]

Gosport (aka TurkTown) is just across the harbour from Pompey so we share this history.

[@BroonParker]

And we have also lost so many pubs.

[@simonreeves828]

7:54 Thats my grandad , Stan 👌✅✅

[@leighparkboy]

Brilliant

[@brianmcmunn5864]

I got my first tattoo at Jacks under the bridge as shown in the vid, 1966

[@terencericketts8017]

Same here

[@terencericketts8017]

1965 was the year I joined the Royal Navy.

[@alexanderheard3157]

Wow guildhall area has changed

[@richierich8334]

Absolutely crazy how this once beautiful country has been conquered and taken over in the last 20 years and about to get a whole lot worse.

[@paularyan4604]

Remember all the bikes coimg out of the gates

[@robert-hh2ft]

back when pompey looked english some of us can remember how it was

[@BroonParker]

In tourist films.

[@tasharyar]

Is the oak tree planted still next to HMS Victory?

[@anselspear6931]

Long since gone. There's a tent there.

[@davidupton4730]

Portsmouth was a city of sailors when I was a kid, 50 years ago but now it’s a city of student accommodation ☹️

[@pompeyjim]

And immigrants

[@seangage9088]

When we has a navy!

[@mastercontrol469]

💙

[@valuetraveler2026]

probably peaked in the 70s! Nothing like what it was today.

[@robharding4028]

Where did it all go wrong ?.

[@DethThrasher1]

@Cheesy Helmet xenophobia too ;)

[@johnwilliams2479]

Globalism agenda 21.30 Mickey Mouse virus and wicked vaccines

[@paulyalden598]

Great vid Matt, mid sixties I assume

[@matts_shack]

Got to be about 63/64 I reckon. That 'B' reg 1100 looks quite new

[@phillipcook9103]

@@matts_shack Really great video looks like it was 1965 as the celebration for HMS Victory was showing dates 1765 to 1965.

[@BigChrisButler]

Kid with the great big plaster 🩹 on his face 😂

[@porkchp6369]

@@BigChrisButler Cut himself shaving. Blokes grew up quicker back then.

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

The Festings

[@trondog8503]

The destruction of old Pompy was not progress.

[@buitoni123456789]

walk along Commercial Road now and you wonder if you are in Baghdad , Nairobi , or Islamabad !!!!!!!

[@SuzyQ334]

Like so many British cities these days. Sad and so wrong.

[@BroonParker]

😅

[@thankyou6864]

Was better life, no corona virus hysteria

[@dangerman8625]

Hallo, Hallo, Hallo, Sailor's.

[@MC14may]

Before our country found our greatest strength....diversity!!😂😂

[@Lord72969]

All white.

[@BroonParker]

Really? No foreign sailors? No Maltese community? Do you think this is a representative sample of Portsmouth in the 1960s? Because it really isn't.

[@ancientmariner3077]

Crap run ashore. The Golden Fleece? Sailors were looked down on. I was there. Plymouth was much better.

[@robert-hh2ft]

for years we avoided looking like london not so today every language known to man is on the bus nowadays and yet we have to say sorry for not understanding pigeon english tony blair is now locked far away from what he created

[@tabascocat5102]

Spot a fat person? Nope.

[@jefg8327]

now known as [ower kebal we been invaded ,