Portsmouth
About Portsmouth
Portsmouth is a port city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England. Most of Portsmouth is located on Portsea Island, off the south coast of England in the Solent, making Portsmouth the only city in England not located primarily on the mainland. The city is located 22 miles (35 km) south-east of Southampton, 50 miles (80 km) west of Brighton and Hove and 74 miles (119 km) south-west of London. With a population last recorded at 208,100, it is the most densely populated city in the United Kingdom. Portsmouth forms part of the South Hampshire urban area with Gosport, Fareham, Havant, Eastleigh and Southampton.
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It was invented in 1898, and it was called the urinet. It was cheaper, it was more space-efficient, and so a few local councils, especially quite a few in London, installed them. There was one in Portsmouth, but women used to flee in horror when they saw it, apparently.
from 240: No Such Thing As An Easy Tweet, 2018-10-26 at 00:50:54 · read transcript
Other times Portsmouth came up
He was a big admiral. He originally didn't want to choose sandwich. He chose it because his first choice was Portsmouth. There was already a Lord Portsmouth. They had a bit of an argy-bargy about who would get to be the Earl of Portsmouth. We could all be having egg and crest Portsmouth today. How cool is that? That's very cool, yeah. It works, a Portsmouth.
No Such Thing As An Egg And Cress Portsmouth, 2014-09-19 · listen
I was on HMAS Victory the other day and they are looking, they're doing a refurb. It's like Triggers broom. They're basically entirely rebuilding here every so often. Where is it? Where is it? In Portsmouth. In Portsmouth. They are using oak from France because there aren't enough old oak trees. They say, I hear you've got loads of oak, mature oak, and you just round them each up now. I might have to put them in touch.
541: No Such Thing As A Sycamore In A Silver Coat, 2024-07-25 · listen
They thought that she could speak to the dead. She was really, really important in the high society. Then in 1941, she was in a seance in Portsmouth, and she claimed the spirit of a sailor told her that a certain ship had been sunk. It turned out that that ship had been sunk, but it hadn't been reported yet. So obviously she became, they were really worried about her.
No Such Thing As A Luigi Board, 2023-01-20 · listen
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