I suppose that if a pub has to close as is increasingly common these days it is as well if it becomes something else rather than remain disused which is also common. The Kings Head on Brockhurst Road, Gosport became a Spar and now a Londis store.

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This branch of HSBC at 48 West Street, Havant was formerly and for a long time, a Halfords. That business relocated a little further south to Solent Retail Park. This evening picture illustrates as well as any the difficulty of photographing anything in our jungles of street furniture.

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The attractive 1897 Old Flour Mill in Queen Street, Emsworth accommodates, amongst others, the relocated Martin Steels optometrist. The BMW outside has an amusingly apposite but legally formatted personalised registration.

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This, in Southend, is not, as you might imagine, a picture of a KFC but rather of the tantalising inscription, 'Offords Cafe', at the top of the building as a reminder of a past age.

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Portsmouth Corporation East Lancs bodied Atlantean 349/CPO349W seen in Clapham Road, SW. I take the letters on the blind to be an abbreviation for City of Portsmouth Transport. The Freemans building on the east side of Clapham Road was/is a major landmark but is now a residential property. For those of you who don't know, Freemans was a major catalogue firm in the days long before the internet when 'shopping from home' meant catalogue shopping.

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