Southsea Common 1935

Southsea Common is a taken for granted feature of the South coast of Hampshire but where else can you think of that has a common in front of the seaside like this?

What a great image of Southsea, the canoe Lake and South Parade Pier in 1935, in what must, retrospectively, have seemed like a million years away from the war that was about to engulf England and particularly this part of the south coast.

Southsea

Southsea Canoe Lake and South Parade Pier 1935

The distinctive onion tops South Parade Pier

South Parade Pier

South Parade Pier as it appears today