First and foremost, I must thank James Cramer, to whom this book is dedicated, for the help he gave me in the early stages of its preparation, and for so generously letting me use his files of newscuttings of articles he produced for the Hampshire Telegraph on law and order issues before that newspapers untimely demise.
I should also like to thank the staff of the Local History and Naval Section in Portsmouth Central Library, and the Search Room team in Portsmouth City Museum and Records Office. I have met with nothing but unstinting assistance and advice on my visits. Both are priceless resources which we, the users, should cherish and support and urge our politicians to do likewise. I am minded while on this subject of the words of the Reverend George Dawson (1821-76) in his inaugural address on the occasion of the opening of Birmingham Free Reference Library in 1866. The sentiments are equally applicable to our local museums and other artistic and cultural endeavours:
a Corporation Libraryis the expression of a convictionthat a town like this exists for moral and intellectual purposes. It is a proclamation that a great community like this is not to be looked upon as a fortuitous concourse of human atoms or as a miserable knot of vipers struggling in a pot each aiming to get his head above the other in the fierce struggle of competition. It is a declaration that the Corporation of a great town like this has not done all its duty when it has put in action a set of ingenious contrivances for cleaning and lighting the streets, for breaking stones, for mending ways; and has not fulfilled its highest functions even when it has given the people of the town the best system of drainage though that is not yet attained.
I must also thank the Portsmouth City Museum and Records Office for permission to reproduce a number of the illustrations in this book. The provenance of these particular illustrations is acknowledged in the text. The rest of the illustrations come from the authors own collection or have been reproduced from either Portsmouth in the Past by W G Gates which was a limited edition of only 250 copies made up of topographical notes and sketches published originally in 1925 in the Hampshire Telegraph, or from W G Gates Records of the Corporation 1835-1927, 1928, and Records of the Corporation 1927-1930, 1931.
Finally, I should like to thank my family for their unstinting help particularly with technical matters.
Thank you, all of you.
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