Gosport

Great-aunt Caroline

Family Stories by LoisMarch 23, 2019March 21, 2019

My 2017: March

Writing by LoisDecember 30, 2017September 15, 2018

The mystery of Great-Aunt Caroline

Family Stories by LoisMarch 14, 2017

Bits and pieces by LoisMarch 26, 2015

The ferry across the Solent between Portsmouth and Gosport only takes four minutes, but even so, those four minutes are magical – being on a ferry and crossing from one place to another. Ferry men have always had a mythological status; Charon who took the dead across Styx to Hades figures is referred to even […]

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 9, 2013

Mudlarks

Sounds fun… but the poverty which encouraged these children to ‘mudlark’ certainly was not fun for the families of Portsea.