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The rise of the Portsmouth Club in the east end of the county did not follow on the usual lines of slow growth and natural selection. "Pompey," as the team wearing the salmon pink shirts is affectionately named by its admirers, did not grow, it was made. The club is one of the few examples of high-class football-playing organisations created by capital and enthusiasm at a year's notice. (source: Association Football and The Men Who Made It Vol 4 , please note that the image shown is of lower resolution and quality than the image on the CD-ROM)

An interesting article from the 1801 Portsmouth Telegraph, or Naval and Military Journal. Decayed provisions including 796 pounds of butter, and 132 pounds of pork were available at Portsmouth Victualling Office along with other goods.(source: Portsmouth Telegraph, or Naval and Military Journal 1801 Vol 2, please note that the image shown is of lower resolution and quality than the image on the CD-ROM)

 

A Belgian Gun Dog Team awaiting orders, resting in the rear of the firing line. 'Belgian Infantry Regiments are all provided with machine-gun sections, which accompany the corps in the field. The gun in use, a machine-gun of the Gatling type, is turned out at the 'Elswick' of Belgium, the war-munitions factory of John Cockerill et Cie, at Serning, near Liege. It fires rifle bullets and is mounted on a light travelling carriage, or 'voiturette de traction,' designed especially for rough work across country. Two dogs, such as visitors to Brussels in happier times have often seen drawing milk and vegetable carts about the streets, form a gun team, and the gun-squad consists of four men. The incident depicted took place in the rear of the fighting line on one of the battlefields between Liege and Brussels on a boiling hot day. (source: The Illustrated War News Volume 1 August 1914 , please note that the image shown is of lower resolution and quality than the image on the CD-ROM)