Anyone here know Portsmouth? Odd question

[drivin_me_nuts]

Odd request,

I looking for some help digging up an old memory of mine. I want to find a place on a map and all that I have is a vague memory to work on.

I went several times as a kid in the early 70's down to HMS Victory and around the dockyard. I recall walking along a jetty that on one side had the sea (I think) and then a dock basin or something similar on the other. Half way along the dock basin there was a wooden walkway that took you back to the 'mainland' over what at the time I recall was either a wooden or metal footbridge. The odd thing is just before you got to the mainland you had to walk through a 'tunnel' through a wall wide enough for one or maybe two people.

I know this is a crap description from a half vague memory, but does anyone have any idea where this place in Porstmouth might be?

I'm just retracing some old childhood memories and it would be nice to actually find the place again on a map if I even knew where to look.

Thanks

[AndWhyNot]

Sounds like Long Curtain to me

[normalbloke]

I bet it is driving you nuts?

[mgbond]

AndWhyNot said:

Sounds like Long Curtain to me

Exactly what I thought.

[ThunderSpook]

I concur, down on the seafront at Southsea, West of Clarence Pier.

[Gingerbread Man]

Woo I was right. Excuse my excitement but I thought this was the place last night but due to my lack of Portsmouth knowledge, I didn't think I was right so kept stun.

[drivin_me_nuts]

Cheers guys.

It was so long ago I thought it might have been dreaming it. I remember that trip to the Victory so well and the walk over that bridge through the tunnel.

Cheers, you've made an old fart feel a lot younger!

[dwilkie]

I always find childhood memories are different from the reality - I remember when I was younger walking through a raised bit over the road under a rail bridge off Clayhall Road on the way back from Alverstoke chippy - except for there was never a railbridge there and the walk takes like 10 minutes rather than the two hours I thought.

I was actually confusing the memory somehow with a walk back from southsea, only I don't even remember getting the ferry.

And my god I can ramble on :\

[drivin_me_nuts]

... make that two of us..

Funny actually, it's been over 30 years since I went to the Victory. Growing up as a kid I think I was very lucky, my parents would take me all over to see and do things, but of all the memories I have of going to places that were the 'best', I have three..

The London transport mueseum used to be at Sion House in West London and it was great - I can still remember the smell the greases used on the old Metropolitan line locomitives, then there was the Victory and then was London zoo, where you could buy a red plastic 'key' and use it to turn on the commentaries at various animal pens (dead cool as a kid growing up in the very early 70's)

</ramble like and old fart mode>