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  P O R T S M O U T H S T R EE T A R T   Let's get the tourist stuff out of the way first ...        Spinnaker Tower HMS Victory     Charles Dickens statue and Pickwick Papers Bench     There are only three traditional statues of Charles Dickens in the World. Photos of the other two in Sydney (May?) and Philadelphia would be much appreciated. HMS Warrior                                              Southsea Beach Canoe Lake   Wetherspoons (both busy)       Viscount (Lord) Palmerston served more than nine years as Prime Minister and died in office in 1865. He had a series of forts built to protect Portsmouth harbour and its dockyard, now called ‘Palmerston’s Folly’.     Previously a branch of the Portsea Island Mutual Co-operative Society, The John Jacques is named after PIMCO’s former chie...