Nine things you might not know about Old Portsmouth

Quebec House found in Bath Square was a public bathing house used in the times when having a bathroom in your own house was very uncommon. It was also used heavily for smuggling and now carries a market value of nearly two million pounds.

Portsmouth Point inspired English composer, William Walton to write a piece of music called Portsmouth Point. Here the University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays Walton's Portsmouth Point Overture.

Garrison Church built in 1212 by the Bishop of Winchester as part of a hospital and hostel for pilgrims, has no roof due to heavy bombing in the early 1940's.

The Square Tower used to serve as Admiral Lord Nelson's home which sat atop of the structure but is now no longer there. The tower also served as a meat and gunpowder store and today houses a restaurant and offered as a venue for marriages.

A chain used to run across Portsmouth Harbour as the last line of defence against invasion. It would be pulled up via a pulley system and ships, which were mostly made of wood, would be damaged when they crashed into it even at low speeds.

Under the eaves of the witch's hat of Fry and Kent estate agents on Broad Street is a seagull which harks back to its history as the Seagull Tavern between 1900 and 1970. The witch's hat was a trademark in the design of Brickwood Breweries' public houses and meant sailors could easily identify where to find their Brickwood pint after a hard day at sea.

Sally Port was frequented by Queen Victoria herself, who used to land there after a trip to her holiday home, Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. The wife of Charles II, Catherine of Branganza, also came through Sally Port and brought with her infusions from the East which is better known today as tea.

Sir Walter Raleigh sent a ship from the Spithead and founded a village in Virginia now North Carolina. The area now known as Roanoke has been recently depicted in the popular US television series, American Horror Story which is loosely based on the people who set sail all those years ago.

The statue of Admiral Lord Nelson was relocated from Southsea Common a few years ago and now looks out over Portsmouth Harbour that he sailed out of for the last time for the Battle of Trafalgar