Alright mush? Welcome to Phub!
This little corner of the internet is designed to be a hub for all things Portsmouth. Or all things Pompey. Either way, it’s Phub.
Everyone knows our brilliant town for the Naval connections, the Spinnaker Tower, and the ferry to France, but anyone who lives here will tell you there is far more to us than that. A lot goes on in Portsmouth, it’s a brilliant place to live with a fascinating history, and we are going to tell all of those stories at Phub.
So who are we? A trio of proud working class Pompey people, that’s who. We were born and bred in Portsmouth and we are never going to leave. We like to keep things local, to support events in the area and spread the word about them. And let us tell you, Portsmouth has a lot to offer!
So if you have heard people claiming there is nothing to do in Portsmouth, tell ’em to stop squinnying and send them here. We’ll set them right.
If you want entertainment, we’ve got it in spades. Culture? Pompey is the birthplace of Charles Dickens for heavens sake. Rudyard Kipling, HG Wells, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle all lived here. We gave the country Isambard K Brunel who built the dockyards and the railways, we gave it James Callaghan who stabilised the UK economy and (mostly) held the Unions at bay. Peter Sellers was a Pompey lad who made the nation laugh for decades, and even Arnold Schwarzenegger used to train in a gym here.
Then there’s John ‘Portsmouth Football Club’ Westwood – you don’t get characters like this outside the M27!
We set up Phub to celebrate all of the remarkable achievements of people from Portsmouth, big and small, past and present, and to help local events and businesses thrive. Most importantly though, we started Phub to make people proud to be from Portsmouth.
P.S Only too late did we find out that the word Phub means to ignore someone in favour of your mobile phone. D’oh! It’s too late now, the Phub website is up and running. What a bunch on dinlos we are, but it makes us quirky we suppose – just like Portsmouth itself.