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The photograph accompanying Gates' article appears to date from the 1930's and the obelisk itself seems quite sturdy and yet there is no record of what happened to it.
A report from the Court Books for the Manors of Portsea and Copnor, dated 1782, alleges that "Felton's Gibbet having been washed away or carried away, Ye Lords of Portsea and certain persons of the Borough met to replace it at the boundary".
A report from 1880 reads as follows:-
Fund raising to pay off the debt continues and "will come in $500 increments", Sadleir said, from people who want to have their family name and the name of an ancestor included on a bronze plaque to be displayed at one of several statuary monuments financed by Sea Trek. Some of those statues have been placed in port cities that Sea Trek stopped in, while others are completed but have yet to be placed in their destined locations.
No names have yet been inscribed on the Portsmouth Memorial.
PRESENTED TO
BY MEMBERS OF
"This tribute of respect is placed in humble admiration of the departed hero by Lord Frederick FitzClarence, Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth, 1852".
The next phase of the anchor's history is told in the "Reminiscences of a Municipal Engineer" by H. Percy Boulnois who was appointed Borough Engineer of Portsmouth on April 3rd 1883. In his book Boulnois says, "Amongst other improvements which I carried out along the seafront was the re-arrangement of the various monuments, trophies etc., which had previously been more or less scattered along the beach. Amongst them was discovered the large anchor of the Victory, and I designed and erected a granite base on which the anchor was placed. This base had four tablets with appropriate inscriptions of which I was the author.....
.......After placing the anchor on its base, it looked rather bare, so I obtained a length of very heavy anchor chain and wreathed it round the shaft and stock, which gave it a very pleasing effect, but it was not there many days, as (a) candid naval friend observed to me, 'Do you know that in the days of the Victory, anchor chains were unknown and only huge hawsers were used?' I at once knew I had been guilty of an anachronism..... and the chain was at once removed and the anchor has gone bare ever since"
The anchor itself is now all but a replica, after extensive repairs to the metal in 1973 when a new wooden stock was added.
In 2005, the bi-centennial year of the Battle of Trafalgar, the City Council proposed that the Anchor be removed from it's place on the seafront and return it to a place closer to it's original position on the Spur Redoubt. This was met with some indignation by local people who claimed that the anchor was not a memorial to Nelson but to all the men who served at Trafalgar and that it should not be removed. With the help of the Town Council a petition to prevent the removal was sent to the Deputy Prime Minister's office.
In September 2005, the City Council relented, not, it was said, from public pressure, but the escalating cost of removal which the Council were not prepared to bear.
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Comus and Chief
Guy Ransom Davies
Algerine Class (Minesweepers) Memorial
Men & Women of Portsmouth
Captain J and Lieut P Bingham Powell
Services and Prisoners of WW1
Colonel Little
Australian Settlers Memorial
Falklands Memorial
Birth of Australia
Hecla Boulder
Wilhelmina J
King James Monogram
The HMS Foudroyant Gun Chesapeake Memorial Shannon Memorial Trident Memorial Aboukir Memorial Portsmouth Naval Memorial Crimean Memorial Southsea D-Day Memorial FM Viscount Montgomery of Alamein Admiral Sir Bertram H.Ramsay WW2 Soldier The Holocaust Memorial Garden of Hope (9/11 and Halabja Memorials) Royal George Gun Town Hall Bell
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Frederick Fitzclarence
Clarence Esplanade is named after him and was opened on 10 August 1848 during the Royal Portsmouth Regatta, attended by Queen Victoria. It's construction had been proposed by Mr E. Emanuel and seconded by the Mayor Benjamin Bramble in November 1847. Work began the following year when the War Department gave the necessary land free of charge, the Treasury committed ?300 and a public subscription was opened. William Gates reports in his 'Records of the Corporation' that "The work was considerable cheapened because, through the good offices of the Lieutenant Governor, Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, and the zealous efforts of Alderman E. Emanuel, convict labour was employed in it's construction, and thousands of tons of mud and shingle were brought from the Dockyard steam basin at that time under construction".
Before giving up his command as Lieutenant Governor, Lord Frederick wanted to present the people of Portsmouth with a gift of two statues, one of Lord Nelson and the other of the Duke of Wellington since both had sailed from Portsmouth to their greatest victories. The statues were unveiled on June 18th 1850 which was followed by a public dinner to the Lieutenant Governor. Their fate is discussed on the "Lost Statues" page.
The departure of Lord Frederick from his position as Lieutenant Governor called forth an expression of gratitude from the Town Council for his unceasing interest in the welfare and convenience of the inhabitants, his co-operation with the Civil Authorities and the improvements carried out to the Southsea Common area under his auspices.
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