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Victorious Vintage

Friday, February 24th, 2012. Published in Community, Fashion & Clothing, Local Events, Music & Bands, Naval & Dockyards, Vintage & Historical Portsmouth by

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is pleased to announce a new event for this year that will celebrate the Diamond Jubilee – Victorious Vintage is the superb collaboration of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Love Southsea, The Boutique Market and Little Johnny Russells.

2012 is going to be an amazing year for Britain.  Not only is the country hosting the Olympics, but the Queen is celebrating her Diamond Jubilee – an incredible sixty year reign!  To celebrate, the government has declared two extra bank holidays this year and Portsmouth is going to be making the most of them!

After a very successful collaboration with Portsmouth Historic Dockyard for the hugely popular Victorian Festival of Christmas, Louise Whitmore owner of Love Southsea and Abigail Pallant-Sidaway owner of The Boutique Market are joining forces once again for this brand new event – Victorious Vintage at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

Together with Ben Mills, James Ralls and Andy Marsh, owners of Little Johnny Russells, this vintage festival will take place over the Jubilee Weekend on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd of June 2012.  This is the perfect time to have a wonderful celebratory fun-filled festival as there will be two bank holidays on the Monday and Tuesday straight afterwards.  Not only that, but it is also half term for schools that week.

Entry onto the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard site will be FREE from 10am-10pm (standard ticketing to attractions will still apply).

During this time the public will have access to an array of beautiful vintage stalls throughout the Historic Dockyard, colourful characters from different eras, live bands on the main stage in Victory Arena, a secondary stage with acoustic acts throughout the day.  On both evenings there will be a main headline act – names TBC but already include Dodgy, The Lightning Seeds, The Bog Rolling Stones, The Silver Beatles and Mark Morris from The Bluetones, plus other well-known bands from the region all compered by Nick Courtney.

More details will follow shortly but for now you can read the write up from today’s news HERE

 

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2 Comments to Victorious Vintage

  1. I literally cannot wait for this!!!
    Roll on June, im bored of the winter.

    BRETT on February 24th, 2012

  2. [...] Victorious Vintage is a FREE 2 day festival in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard this June, taking place over the Jubilee weekend 2nd & 3rd June.  We’ve got some more details for you to follow soon, but for now here is a gander at the fantastic line up of bands and artists that will be performing on the 2 stages over the festival. [...]

    Victorious Vintage – Live Music Line Up | Strong Island on April 25th, 2012

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Features

The 2nd Strong Island Ale – Dry Dock No. 1

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012. Published in Features, Food & Drink, Strong Island by

As you may know each year we run a home brew competition in February where the winning brew has the opportunity to be brewed by Irving & Co Brewing Co. and sold around the city in the summer. Last year’s brew, the Strong Island Hopper Ale, was hugely successful being one of Inving’s best selling ales and selling out so quickly it went through a second brew run. This year’s winning ale is Dry Dock No. 1, originally brewed by Lee Immins, went on sale in some of Portsmouth and Southsea’s pubs over the weekend.

We spoke to The Hole in The Wall in Southsea who said the new ale went down a storm with it being their best seller on Sunday and with almost two barrels empty by the end of the Bank Holiday weekend. Those guys at the Hole in The Wall and their regular ale drinkers know their stuff so for us this was amazing early news with the ale.

To officially launch Dry Dock No. 1 we are having a launch party with the lovely souls at The Belle Isle on Thursday evening. The ale will be on full flow, come down and try a pint or two. As well as being on sale all around the city the ale will also be available in Chichester’s Belle Isle too, so you can drink it away from home for the first time too.






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The Isle Of Wight Randonnee 2012 – Team Strong Island

Monday, May 7th, 2012. Published in Bikes & Cycling, Features by

Just over a year ago, a group of Strong Islanders were sat on the Isle of Wight ferry on our way to the yearly Randonnee cycling event; 60 miles around the island spread across 5 checkpoints. Whilst on the crossing we couldn’t help but admire various enthusiasts and their custom team jerseys. Fast forward a year and it is my great pleasure to unveil the Strong Island cycling jersey. Made as a one off for the event, the jersey is our way of representing this city and all the values that come with it. Thanks to the combined designing efforts of Chris Ballingall and Tristan Savage, we were able to produce this clean, retro looking jersey that 11 of Southsea’s finest could wear to conquer the island’s endless hills. Well done chaps.

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