Your Twenty Four No.02 : Tristan Savage

Continuing the Your Twenty Four series my day started with streams of beautiful sunlight coming in through the dining room window. The perfect morning to accompany my regular 8 mile commute to work through Southsea and out along the Eastern Road. A relatively relaxed day at work was nicely broken up with a ride to The Royal Oak pub on Langstone Harbour and then a short jaunt back in to Southsea to the Portsmouth Fish Market and Eastney Marina. After finishing work I went straight to the Art & Design Degree Show at The Eldon Building. I was a bit pushed for time so I only got to hang out at my old course Communication Design and meet friends/tutors new and old, as well as sink a few beers of course. Congratulations to Mikey, Brendon, Jenna & all the graduates. A lot of goodbyes later I stopped home briefly to pick up Liz and head on down to The Belle Isle for their opening party. Huge thanks to all the guys and gals involved. We’ll be doing a little feature on The Belle Isle soon. After last orders we got dropped of on Albert Road and took advantage of another hours bar time at LJR before heading home. Phew… check the full 24 Photo Edit HERE and the full 24 Hour Edit HERE.

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Your Twenty Four No.01 : Paul Gonella

Your Twenty Four is a new regular feature for Strong Island and each instalment will contain up to 24 photographs taken over a 24 hour period within Portsmouth by different people. You can shoot one roll of film or take out your digital camera and just document what you got up to. I’m going to start off with a sunny Saturday morning’s beachcombing in Langstone Harbour followed by a bike ride along the seafront to Bored, including a look around the Marine Museum grounds, one of the forts, the pier, etc. All shot on one roll of film in an Olympus Pen half-frame camera.

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

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.

The Isle Of Wight Randonnee 2012 – Team Strong Island

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.