At Wessex Film and Sound Archive you can see and hear history, from late Victorian times to the present day, through moving images and sound recordings. The Archive contains over 36,000 film and sound recordings relating to Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, including film and tapes of local TV and radio.
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Portsmouth Point
Enjoy the view from an eyrie on Spice Island as a parade of ferries, frigates and hovercraft bustle in and out of a busy Portsmouth Harbour in 1975
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Overview
This film, a pleasure to shipping fans everywhere, captures Portsmouth Harbour as it used to look before the massive redevelopment of Gunwharf Quay. We see several Isle of Wight ferries, operated by Sealink, docking and departing while two Royal Navy frigates, HMS Dundas and HMS Londonderry arrive and depart. A hovercraft enters the harbour itself while another arrives at its Southsea base, collects a passenger and departs. The film ends as it began with a ship's anchor.
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