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2023.055.3.0063Description
Sepia tone stereograph. Image is of a crowded beach, people are wearing vintage clothes, a single rowboat and many sailboats are in the water. On the upper rigth corner of the backing "S 51" is stammped. Below the image "(37)-10599-Holiday throngs on the sands at Southsea, Eng. Copyright Underwood & Underwood, U-52658" is printed. To the left of the image "European Publishers Underwood & Underwood London Ltd." is printed. To the right of the image "Underwood & Underwood New York & Ottawa, Kas. Works, Arlington, N.J." is printed.
On the reverse the following is printed:
10599. Physiography - This part of England's south coast, in Hants, near Southampton, has had the waters of the English Channel beating against it century after century. The loose stones along its margin have been broken smaller and smaller. Rubbed against each other, they have worn off each other's angles until every bit is smooth almost to a polish. The tide seems to be going out just now; the waves have been coming up farther and have left the worn pebbles wet. Now for six hours the water will recede farther and farther then it will turn again andadvance for the (unreadable) high tide in twenty-four hours.
The Isle of Wight is only three-quarters of an hour's sail off this shore. Beyond that lies the broad, rough sweep of the English Channel between here and the French coast of Normandy.
History - Portsmouth harber, which opens up just nonrthwest of Southsea, has always been a favorite place for vessels to land or to put out on voyages. English troops camped near this shore at various times during the wars of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. Henry VIII built here a fort which still exists, part of the harbor defences. Catherine of Braganza, the Portuguese bride of Charles II sailed past this very beach in 1662 to land at Portsmouth and marry the ill-fated Stuart monarch.
In 1782 one of the finest warships in the British fleet - the Royal Georage- Sank just off this shore. Cowper's verse are well known :-
"Toll for the brave, the brave who are no more,
All sunk beneath the wave, fast by their native shore."
A buoy is still kept floating to mark the spot where eight hundred seamen perished with their commanidng officers.
(In italics) Refere again to this view when considering Transportation, Geolgoy, People and Homes, Child Life.
(Line)
Holiday throngs at Southsea, England.
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