Pompeia Lil

A brooch

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A star and crescent brooch. Pomponian must have it to his true love!

Charlie is a workhouse kid.

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Charlie is a workhouse kid. Well, he spent a couple of weeks in that Portsea institution. He couldn’t stand the regulations and absconded. The gang live by the same rules – Charlie's. Mr Price to you, or as he now likes to be called, Sir. He's charming, handsome, rich, and powerful – bloody ruthless. He is a rule unto himself. He named his daughter Queenie – after all, she is Pompey royalty. He runs his borough with ruthless efficiency. Charlie Price has two sides. Nice and loyal or mean and nasty. You choose which side you are on. Lil chose. She fell in love with him – silly cow.

Chance Street, Portsea.

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British sailors WW2

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HMS Victory

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a scale model. C:1920's.

The star and crescent on Portsmouth's arms.

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Tue, 15 May 2018 13:47:00 +0000

There are many theories explaining the star and crescent on the coats of arms of t the English city of Portsmouth. What is the story behind these symbols?

Tony Restall, a Briton visiting Yemen for business, was stopped by members of a radical religious group, while he was in his car, according to a news article published in the Sun newspaper in 2006. He interestingly was released by the armed group, although he thought he was about to be killed. The reason was the Portsmouth Football Club sticker with a crescent and star symbol on the car's windscreen.

Well then, why is there a crescent and star, which is an Islamic symbol, on Portsmouth Football Club's emblem? According to some sources, the emblem, which is used on the city of Portsmouth's arms, was copied from William Longchamp's coat of arms. Longchamp was King Richard I's chancellor when the town's charter was granted on May 2, 1194.Rumour has it that the story goes back to the period of the third crusade, when King Richard admired a coat of arms featuring a crescent and eight stars, while he was in Cyprus in 1191. In 1686, it was officially registered. Nevertheless, the existence of a coat of arms with a crescent and star in Cyprus, which was under the control of the Byzantines at the time, is an isssue that raises other questions.

Located in Britain's southeast, Portsmouth is an important port city connected to London. Many people have heard about the city from the British Premier League. The relation between Turks and Portsmouth goes back to the 1850s. Sultan Abdülmecid I sent naval officers to Britain, once the world's most powerful marine power, for navigation and artillery training. Two frigates, the Mir'at-ı Zafer (The Mirror of Victory) and Çerağ-ı Bahri (The Light of the Sea) anchored in Portsmouth Harbor. In their uniforms featuring dark blue jackets, blue trousers, a belt and sword, the Ottoman sailors made a splash in the city. They kindly welcomed those who wanted to visit the ships. However, those who heard about the old stories of Ottoman sailors were somewhat disappointed when they saw them in uniforms looking like British sailors rather than donning glamorous, eccentric attire.

At that time a cholera epidemic broke out in the city. The epidemic grew in the harbor area, which did not have a sewer system and where dockworkers were living side by side in squalor. Some of the Ottoman crew became sick, and 26 of them died. They were buried in a special section of the Royal Military Hospital Haslar in Gosport, lying opposite the city of Portsmouth. The graves were transferred to the Clayhall Naval Cemetery on the shore of Alver Lake due to the construction of Zymotic Hospital in 1902, which is where the Ottoman sailors' gravestones with the crescent and star currently stand. The gravestones were also inscribed with the Quranic verse: "Every soul shall have a taste of death," as well as the sailors' names and date of death. Turkey renovated the cemetery in 1985. This account is available in both English and Turkish resources. Mustafa Bey, the commander of Mir'at-ı Zafer, mentioned the incident in his 16-page report. Is there any relation with this account and Portsmouth's crescent and star coat of arms? Did Portsmouth make a gesture to the Ottomans, a close ally of Britain in those years? Who knows?

There is another narration about the crescent and star on Portsmouth's logo. Some believe Sultan Abdulhamid II founded the club in 1898 for intelligence purposes. Because London is in the public eye, the sultan chose Portsmouth, which had a larger Irish rather than British influence. Yet, is it not interesting to put a conspicuous crescent and star on a city and club's arms established for intelligence purposes?

The relation between Turks and Hampshire is not limited to these accounts. Gosport Harbor is located opposite Portsmouth; its name could be related to the Middle English "goseport," which means goose port. What is more interesting is that the area is mentioned as a Turk town among the public. According to a rumor, the city took its name from Muslim war captives who were brought to the city after the Crusades. City authorities described themselves as Turks and believed that the city has a mysterious connection with Turks. Even today, a school run by the royal navy is called HMS Sultan. The British ship Triumph was renamed Sultan following the visit of Sultan Abdülzaziz I in 1870. A 1464-dated Ottoman cannon made for the defense of the Strait of Gallipoli can be seen at Fort Nelson overlooking Portsmouth Harbor. In 1868, the Ottoman government presented it as a gift.

Ekrem Buğra Ekinci

Victorian British sailors

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Queen Elizabeth.

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Hope Street by Pompeia Lil.

Royal Navy

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With menagerie.

C: 1790 watercolour The George

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Portsdown Hill Portsmouth.

Commercial Road, Portsmouth

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Circa 1902.

Victoria Park Portsmouth

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Circa 1900.

Fairview House

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1960's, Fairview House, named because it overlooked the annual Portsdown Hill fair!

Portsdown Hill Fair with Fairview house in the background

Portsdown Hill Fair :

Cuckoldom and divorce

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The whole conduct of these divorce cases points to a remarkable insensitiveness among Englishmen to scandal, even if it touched with its taint members of their family who were dragged into the proceedings. An English husband did not hesitate to broadcast his own shame.

Archenholtz gave the following illustration of this: A ship's captain came upon his wife and one of his sailors when they expected not to be disturbed in what they were doing. He had her stripped naked and, with her lover, set astride a mast which was decked with streamers and carried on the shoulders of a number of sailors. The procession went through the streets of East London while a band played and an amazing crowd of people followed.

A country nobleman, who had come with his wife to London on a pleasure trip, had strong suspicions of her infidelity. He gave out he was going a journey and surprised her in the night in the arms of an officer. He was provided with cord and had them bound by men hand and foot and tied by the neck to the bed-posts. He exhibited them in this plight to all his friends and acquaintances. The friends brought others along, for which permission was gladly given and this strange spectacle lasted for four days, during which time the loving couple got nothing but bread and water.

It was almost always the husband who gave the journalists the first details about his cuckoldom in order to ‘enlighten the spirit of the nation’. His honour seemed to receive satisfaction by just that which in other countries would have been accounted public disgrace. In a divorce case the husband never made himself ridiculous, but it was always the wife's lover, well thrashed, who went pale. A duel, which in other countries was the usual outcome of this sort of scandal, was regarded in England as utterly superfluous, and indeed, chose ridicule.

Chance Street

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Chance Street Portsea.

Miss May Miller's postcard.

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:23:00 +0000

First reference to May Miller writing a book.

The Hard

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The hard, Portsmouth.

Palmerston Road

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Mikado & tea rooms, Palmerston Road.

Hope Street, Portsea.

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Eliza an actress at the The Royal Theatre

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“Who’s your friend?” Charlie said, as he stared at the woman with—what looked to Charlie like—a fruit basket on her head.

Edwardian man

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The Turtle

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Dodgy handed Jimmy an ale. “There’s a job for you.”
Jim smiled. Dodgy hoped beer would muster his aggression, but he doubted it. If it weren’t for the grime, he’d look like a ruddy choirboy. Still, his choice, we all have to earn our money where we can. Half an hour later and a greater commotion disturbed the bustling street. The tide of people separated as Father Dolling propelled two boys, held either side of his cassock, by their ears, to his gymnasium. If they wanted to fight, they would play by Queensberry rules, in a ring, and with gloves.
“A quid on Eddie,” Sam said.
Ted ran the book. Dodgy bet a guinea. Charlie backed Jimmy-he was hungry. The regulars backed their chosen boys. The mob deserted The Turtle for the gymnasium.
Ted looked at his empty pub. “Great.”
Charlie didn’t win. He lost his takings to the hat passed a whip-round by Father Dolling for the gymnasium’s benefit. Jimmy had a bloody nose and a black eye. The mob carried him above their heads to The Turtle. By the evening, his eye had closed, his nose swollen, and he was drunk. But he had 2/6 in his pocket. He was on his way.

Charlie Price and Lillian Miller

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“Lillian.” He stroked her hair and wiped away her tear with his index finger. “Lillian.”
“Please.”
He took her hand. “I’ve hurt you. I apologise.”
Lillian frowned.
“Lillian forgive me. I wouldn’t hurt you; not for the world.”
“What’s done is done,” is all she said.
He held her arm. “We can’t undo it, but we shouldn’t regret it.”
“Charlie, I hardly know you.”
“You do now.” Charlie struggled not to smile.
“I’m not a slut.”
“Lil, I know that.”
“I don’t blame you.”
Charlie knew she wouldn’t, he had, of course, not forced her. “I love you.”
“I don’t know what came over me.”
Charlie smiled. He drew her to him and kissed her. “Me,” he said.

Frequent fast trains!

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Handleys department store

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Agnes buys new dresses.