By John L. Field
In the summer of 1874, a huge crowd of men and women assembled on Southsea Common to attack a barrier which kept them off a few square yards of land, between what we now know as Clarence Pier and the Pier Rooms. They then heard the Riot Act read for the last time in the city’s history. The struggle for the right of public way along the beach became known as the Battle of Southsea.
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