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The Bridge Shopping Centre is a small shopping centre located in Portsmouth, England.The centre was opened in May 1989 on land which was formerly home to Portsea Island Central Premises Co-Op. [1] The centre was originally owned by Asda, who were their main tenant, until the Portsmouth City Council purchased the centre in September 2023, [2] with plans to include new tenants and office space.
The name Fratton was once Froddington, a Saxon name which originally meant "Frodda's Farm" or "Frodda's village". A pub on Fratton Road is still named "The Froddington Arms". [3] There is a commemorative plaque by the petrol station near Fratton Asda, marking where a bomb shelter was hit by a bomb on 10 January 1941, killing 80 people. [4]
It was later renamed Portsmouth Town on 2 October 1876 [3] to avoid confusion with other stations in Portsmouth, such as Portsmouth Harbour. To the south of the passenger railway station and high level platforms, an adjoining railway goods station stood until 1936, [4] when it was relocated to Fratton Goods Yard.
Both Numark and Rowlands Pharmacy are owned by Phoenix. [2] Each pharmacy business within Numark is an independently owned outlet, but membership of Numark allows individual retailers to take advantage of "group purchasing deals" to reduce their costs. This model is known as a symbol group, or virtual chain.
Rowlands Castle railway station serves the village of Rowland's Castle, Hampshire, England. It is located on the Portsmouth Direct Line , 63 miles 18 chains (101.8 km) down the line from London Waterloo via Woking.
Fratton Park is actually named after the nearby Fratton railway station (which is in Fratton) and not the geographic area of Fratton of Portsmouth. This peculiar misnaming has caused many of Portsmouth's residents and football fans to incorrectly assume that Fratton Park is located in Fratton, and not in Milton.
The PO postcode area, also known as the Portsmouth postcode area, [2] is a group of 34 postcode districts in southern England, within 24 post towns.These cover south-east Hampshire (including Portsmouth, Southsea, Havant, Waterlooville, Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, Fareham, Rowland's Castle, Emsworth and Hayling Island), southwestern West Sussex (including Chichester and Bognor Regis) and the ...
Fratton railway station is a railway station in the city of Portsmouth, on Portsea Island in England. It was opened in the Fratton area of Portsmouth on 1 July 1885 as an interchange station between the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and the short-lived Southsea Railway branchline.