Battery Row

Saturday 15 February 1845 : Hampshire Advertiser

Married - On the 13th instant at St Thomas’s Church, Mr W Mark of Point, to Lucy Riddler of Battery Row

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Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette : Saturday 9 August 1851

The Times Correspondent’s News Room, Battery Row, (Saluting Platform),: established June 25, 1849 - The Daily and Weekly Papers may be consulted in this News Room before any other establishment in Portsmouth.

Subscription 1 Guinea per annum; 12s 6 d half year; 7s 6d per quarter; 2s 6d per month.  Payment in advance.

Nearly 150 Noblemen and Gentlemen - Naval, Military, and Civil - are subscribers to this News Room which possesses the important advantage of a Second Edition of The Times at 5.30pm daily, and the aid of Electric Telegraph upon every important occasion.

Mr Jarvis S Tibbitts, Proprietor

Saturday 11 April 1857 : Hampshire Telegraph

All that extremely valuable first-class convenient stuccoed Freehold Private Residence, No 5 Battery Row late in the occupation of Mr J S Tibbetts Esq., commanding the finest views of the Isle of Wight, Spithead,  St Helens, and Southsea Common, overlooking the Platform Battery and near the Victoria Pier.

Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette : Saturday 14 September 1861

Battery Row : Marvin & King are instructed by Mr Richards, who is moving, to sell by auction on the premises as above, on Friday September 27, 1861, commencing at 12 o’clock, a portion of the household furniture and effects, also by permission will be included with the above, a portion of the household furniture of a lady declining housekeeping.

Hampshire Telegraph : 22 February 1868 

For sale by Auction - Lot 2, a Pleasantly situate Freehold Dwelling-House being

4 Battery Row, Let at £10 per annum, comprising six rooms, kitchen, yard and two cellars.  Commands uninterrupted views of the sea and Isle of Wight

Hampshire Advertiser : Saturday 3 February 1872

Death : On the 21st ult., in Battery Row, Mr James George Gill, aged 64 

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Portsmouth Evening News : 25 June 1880 : 

For Sale - Belgian Hares and Rabbits

4 Battery Row.

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Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 4 May 1901

Semaphore Place - a name given to Battery Row.

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Hampshire Telegraph : Friday 21 March 1924

Ernest Jefferies, Battery Row, for riding a bicycle without a light at 7 pm on March 3, on the Bursledon Bridge Road, Sarisbury, was fined 15s.  Pc Barker stated that the defendant gave false name and address.  He had no lamp on his machine.  Defendant said he had been to Southampton to try to find a job.

Hampshire Telegraph : Friday 22 May 1925

A Portsmouth child named Lawrence Clarkson (3), of Battery Row, had a narrow escape from serious injury on Tuesday afternoon.

It appears the child was in the vicinity of the moat near the King’s Bastion, when he slipped over the edge, and dropped a distance of some 20 feet into about a foot of water below.  He received a severe cut on the top of his head, and might have been drowned but for the prompt action of Mark Street of Oyster Street, who jumped into the moat and prevented the boy from going under the water.  He was assisted by John Thorpe of Barrack Street, who carried the child to the YMCA in High Street, where first aid was rendered by Pc Hewitt.

The little fellow was afterwards taken to to the Royal Hospital, where his injuries were attended to.

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Portsmouth Evening News : Wednesday 19 August 1925

The Portsmouth Borough Coroner will hold an enquiry this evening concerning the finding of the body of a newly-born female child which was found in a moat opposite the Saluting Battery, on Sunday.

The child was wrapped in two pieces of linen and a copy of the “Evening News” for August 12th.

The police have been unable to trace the parentage of the child.

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Portsmouth Evening News : Thursday 24 September 1931

Sir, My attention was called to paragraph in By the Way to the old almshouses in Highbury Street.  I should like to make a suggestion: As it has a covered-in stone yard at the back, it would make a soup kitchen for the poor of this district.

I feel sure that we have some kind-hearted butchers who would send some scraps and bones; and if some traders in vegetables could spare some for soup making we could charge a penny a pint or quart to cover the expenses of the coal or gas for making the same.  I would give my services, and am sure I could get some volunteers to help.  Perhaps the clergy could give tickets to the poor and destitute of this district.

This winter is going to be a very hard one for the poor when the dole ceases.

Yours,  Florence Sorton, Battery Row

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Portsmouth Evening News : Saturday 18 November 1950

Semaphore House, Battery Row

Hall, Pain & Foster, 57 Commercial Road, announce that having sold the above property by private treaty, it is withdrawn from their auction on 29th November

Hampshire Telegraph : Friday 22 May 1925

A Portsmouth child named Lawrence Clarkson (3), of Battery Row, had a narrow escape from serious injury on Tuesday afternoon.

It appears the child was in the vicinity of the moat near the King’s Bastion, when he slipped over the edge, and dropped a distance of some 20 feet into about a foot of water below.  He received a severe cut on the top of his head, and might have been drowned but for the prompt action of Mark Street of Oyster Street, who jumped into the moat and prevented the boy from going under the water.  He was assisted by John Thorpe of Barrack Street, who carried the child to the YMCA in High Street, where first aid was rendered by Pc Hewitt.

The little fellow was afterwards taken to to the Royal Hospital, where his injuries were attended to.