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Favourite Building

• The Spinnaker Tower
• Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
• The Registry - so purdyful.
• The Spinnaker Tower
• The marine barracks clocktower, its so cool and whenever i see it i know i'm home.
• Your Mum.
• Spiniker Tower - not quite finished at the moment but will be sometime soon

• Cascades... Love it... best shoppin centre!
• City Museum, once part of an army barracks. It was built in the style of a French chateau, but looks very gothic and quite spooky owing to the fact it's built in red brick (go figure)
• My Place!!!!!!!
• The Guildhall and Square. Check out the massive lions. Often Skaters about if you're into that. The Tricorn: it will never be destroyed. It will live forever as a homage to arcane 60's design. If the council had any sense, they would exploit its tackiness, smarten it up a bit, let some shops open there and move out the dodgy people lurking in the shadows. Seriously, it has some interesting shapes, and would look great with a bit of painting/rennovation. Failing that they could turn it into a big slide.
• Victory Buildings inside the Naval Base.
• Kings Theatre Southsea. A Matcham masterpiece. The Garrison Church, Governer's Green. Exquisite. Best Church in Britain.
• The Mystery Portsmouth one of the best public houses in portsmouth being vandalised, offer it free to any private resident or turn it into a museum. a grade 2

• The Tricorn - car park, market, generally scary place.
• Tricorn
• The tricorn it has character and should be painted in mad colours and my house Langstone Christian Fellowship Shore Avenue
• The Tricorn is peffect for your urbanised dreams.Maybe if Skaters start moving in, then they wont pull it down
• Old Clock Tower, southsea or still and west
• South Parade Pier, The Hard, My old house in Waverley Road.
• Round Tower, Square tower, Southsea Leisure Park, Camping there is Brill Victory Pub serves BUDWEISER by the pint.
• New Theatre Royal!! Look out for the smoke-damaged cherubs....absolutely stunning (and a nice cheap place to have a cuppa too).
• The Zurich Insurance Building in town is a fantastic structure if you like modern stuff; Charles Dickens birthplace is a good example of a victorian town house; the forts in the Solent are quite cool too - how on earth did they build them?! You can look round the nearest one - and they hire it out for parties.
• Bateson hall
• Got to be everyone else's least fave ..... the Tricron, rather attached to the old place and will be very sorry to see it go!!
• Cumberland House Museum (mentioned by another contributer) is indeed a must see if you are in Portsmouth. Unfortunately it has been sadly neglected and woefully underfunded since its early 80s heydey when I used to visit as a kid. The same stuffed animals are still on display, but now have a rather shabby and folroln apperance. There are a couple of unfortunate stuffed otters which have been left to get rather mouldy, and one of them is missing an eye. The museum's centrepiece (a lifesize paper mache t-rex)now fails to strike fear into my heart as it once did. In fact it has a couple of gaping holes in its side, and could do with a lick of paint.
• The Tricorn shopping centre, quite the most interesting building in a long time, unfortunately, lacking in the state of it's repair.
• the tricorn....dont knock it down dammit!!

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Last updated: 2008-10-14