Fawcett Road
More photos of our local area: this is where our closest shops are, although these days most of our useful shops have gone (well before the pandemic) - butchers', bakers', chip shop, the usual local shops you'd expect to find. The building across the street that looks like a church has been converted into flats. It was a Methodist Church, opened in 1892 as a Bible Christian chapel and registered in August 1894, this was used for nearly a century: the last service was held on 26 August 1984 and the building was sold for residential use. The Priory Court flats were completed in 1986, but the red-brick exterior is little altered. The congregation from the nearby Brougham Road chapel joined in the 1940s, and the sale of that building contributed £2,800 to Fawcett Road's funds in 1953.
If you cross the road here, you get to the boys' secondary school - they had a very short, 5 minute walk to school!
If you're interested in churches, past and present, in Portsmouth, click here.
Fawcett Road
More photos of our local area: this is where our closest shops are, although these days most of our useful shops have gone (well before the pandemic) - butchers', bakers', chip shop, the usual local shops you'd expect to find. The building across the street that looks like a church has been converted into flats. It was a Methodist Church, opened in 1892 as a Bible Christian chapel and registered in August 1894, this was used for nearly a century: the last service was held on 26 August 1984 and the building was sold for residential use. The Priory Court flats were completed in 1986, but the red-brick exterior is little altered. The congregation from the nearby Brougham Road chapel joined in the 1940s, and the sale of that building contributed £2,800 to Fawcett Road's funds in 1953.
If you cross the road here, you get to the boys' secondary school - they had a very short, 5 minute walk to school!
If you're interested in churches, past and present, in Portsmouth, click here.