About Waterlooville and our personal blog about us
Portsmouth Museum is a free to enter museum located, er, in the City of Portsmouth. Most of the rooms/displays contain displays that are connected with Portsmouth, one room when we visited had a large collection of retro games consoles and 8 and 16 bit computers, some of which were playable. Definitely worth a visit, set aside a couple of hours to see and enjoy everything … [Read More...]
Portmouth's Bus station is actual name is Portsmouth Coach Station. Although 'Coach Station' does sound rather grander than 'Bus Station', it is never-the-less mostly referred to as Portsmouth Bus Station! Quite a bit of waiting around was required to get an image that concentrated on the design of the bus/coach station and not have the building blocked by vehicles. Having … [Read More...]
A meal out at Gunwharf Quays, the weather was warm, took this cheeky panoramic photograph whilst eating at The Slug and Lettuce. Click image for full size. … [Read More...]
The Rockville Retail Park location of Wickes and Topps Tiles in Waterlooville has installed an Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera. The ANPR … [Read More...]
The former Cowplain takeaway known as Palash is to become Kassia Kitchen ... … [Read More...]
Booze 'N' More, located on the A3 in Cowplain is closing down. Back on the day I remember this being a Threshers off-licence. … [Read More...]
The Brows Lounge Beauty & Nails is a new venture located in the former location of The Smile Charity shop in Waterlooville’s Boulevard precinct. … [Read More...]
Wellington Way car park now has two dedicated Electric Vehicle charging points. Waterlooville is very well served for EV drivers, chargers are also available … [Read More...]
is now under new ownership, the new owners got in touch with us to tell us about the improvements they have made to area since purchase. The new improvements … [Read More...]
We spent a day at Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard, the highlight for me was the scheduled Harbour tour, we waited for a sunny calm day before purchasing out tickets … [Read More...]
On Friday 10th November we went to Park Community School located on Middle Park Way, Leigh Park with some adult friends and an entourage of children to see the … [Read More...]
My youngest son wanted to go to Adventure Wonderland for this birthday treat, he had previously visited this attraction with his preschool many years before. The … [Read More...]
During the October half-term holiday we decided to visit the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum. Located just near Chichester in West Sussex, The Weald and Downland … [Read More...]
We decided to take our children swimming, and rather than go to the local leisure centre or beach, we took them to Petersfield's Heated Open Air Swimming … [Read More...]
In July 2016 I tagged along my eldest two sons and the Waterlooville based Training Ship (TS) Active Marine Training Corps on their visit to the RAF's Fleet Air Arm … [Read More...]
Jake's Gentleman's Salon is now open in the former location of the butcher shop. It's even got one of those spinny barber thingies on the outside! … [Read More...]
The former location of Nico’s Cowplain is now the new home of “Inspire Hair & Beauty by Sara” who have moved from from a nearby side street. … [Read More...]
A gallery of some of my favourite photographs of a holiday to Playa Blanca in Lanzarote located in the Canary Islands. I will be adding to these over time to do check back. Please let me know what you think in the comments below, many thanks. … [Read More...]
Waterlooville's The Wellington Pub closed in the spring of 2017, the pub re-opened last week as 'Number 73 Bar & Kitchen'. The sign on the front of the building acknowledges the building's former name, a nice gesture. 'Number 73 Bar and Kitchen' are on … [Read More...]
