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The Semaphore Tower in Portsmouth Dockyard stands in the foreground beyond which is the railway extension to the dockyard which no longer exists. HMS Victory can be seen floating in the busy harbour, a position in which she spent many years before being placed into dry dock in 1922.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Body-C12\"\u003eThe Camber at Old Portsmouth is surrounded by ships and dominated by Portsmouth Cathedral. On the Gosport side of the harbour Holy Trinity Church is clearly visible as well as the elegant Clarence Square (where the flagpole stands) which was sadly demolished in the 1960s. 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Presumably one of the large ships is HMS Victory.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBurney's Academy was established at Cold Harbour (later Clarence Square), Gosport in 1791 by the Reverend William Burney (1762-1832). It later acquired Royal patronage and was renamed the Royal Academy, though was still colloquially known as Burney's Academy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe school educated boys for careers in the navy and the army, being also used as a \"crammer\" before the taking of entrance exams for either service. A prospectus from the 1840s states that \"The Establishment is of large extent, and eligibly situated in a fine open square, opposite the Dock Yard, and adjoining Portsmouth Harbour\". 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The newly formed Port of Portsmouth Floating Bridge Company survived a petition by eleven hundred watermen and the bridge, built in Bristol and measuring 100 feet long, went into operation in 1840 between the Gosport waterfront and the Point at Old Portsmouth. It was propelled by two steam engines mounted on two heavy chains and transported carriages, carts and livestock, as well as motor cars and other vehicular traffic. The floating bridge operated continuously until 1959.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ship on the left is HMS York, a 74-gun ship of the line launched in 1807. After service in the Napoleonic wars she entered Portsmouth Harbour in 1819 where she was stripped of her masts and guns and converted into a prison ship, being finally broken up in 1854. 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It stood largely on the site of where Rectory Close is today. Part of Alverstoke Rectory is shown to the left, peeping out from below the branches of the tree in the foreground. On the right we can look along Clayhall Lane (now Clayhall Road) and see the back of the Kickergill - an imposing stone and brick seamark erected during the reign of William and Mary in 1694. It stood on a position almost opposite the entrance to Somervell Close today and on the edge of a parcel of land described in a contemporary description as 'Kicker Field'. This wonderful old structure was shamefully demolished in 1965 to widen the road!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn old triple-arched causeway is shown spanning the lake which today is probably buried beneath the footpath connecting Little Anglesey Road to Clayhall Road, adjacent to Brodrick Hall. A watercourse passes through the meadow in the foreground, today known as Stokesmead, and runs through a culvert beneath the road. 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