Hi All: My first visit to Portsmouth was in August 1961. I stayed at a B&B in Commercial Road, which was then a long street. I was staying not too far from the short remaining section that includes Charles Dickens' birthplace Museum, but I'm reasonably sure the B&B was torn down in the later reconstruction. While in Portsmouth I took a ride on the SRN-2 hovercraft that was operating for only two weeks - the first time a hovercraft had ever been used as public transportation, and only for that two weeks. In fact, that was why I visited Portsmouth in the first place! I had purchased a round-trip ticket to Ryde. During that visit I also took my first tour of the Victory, and also visited Charles Dickens' birthplace, and Gherman Titov was launched into orbit by the Russians, the second cosmonaut, for a 24-hour ride. Yuri Gagarin (launched April 12, 1961) only did one orbit, John Glenn later that year did three, and Alan Shepard, America's first astronaut, just made a 15-minute "hop" along the East Coast of the USA three weeks after Gagarin. My father was at Portsmouth Grammar School in the 1890's, and his family had lived there for 100 years, originally from Devonport. But then, I had far less interest in the family history than I do now! When exactly was Commercial Road redeveloped and shortened to the few hundred yards it now occupies? I know it was before 1991, when we visited again. Was the street renumbered, if so, what was the old and new numbering for the Dickens house? Happy New Year to all! Martin Willcocks Taylorsville, UT, USA.