Buckland, Portsmouth built in the 1950s and '60s. Buckland has their own language barrier of rhyme and slang just like London back in the early 60s. Charles Dickens was born in Buckland in 1812. His father moved to Portsmouth to work at the Naval Base. He bought a terraced house in an area close to the base then called Newtown. The house of his birth is now a museum. It stands in Old Commercial Road which is to this day a very prestigious street containing many listed Georgian and Victorian terraced houses and town houses. There is no official boundary of Buckland,
HMS Childers (1812) the crew of "Childers", forcing him to bring her into English Harbour, Antigua, with only 15 men available for duty. According to "The Naval Chronicle", within a month she lost over 35 officers and men dead from fever. In January 1817 Commander Amos Freeman Westropp assumed command. "Childers" was broken up at Chatham on 7 March 1822. Notes Citations References HMS Childers (1812) HMS "Childers" was a Royal Navy 18-gun , built by Nicholas Diddams at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched in 1812. She was broken up in 1822. "Childers" was commissioned in July 1812 under Commander Buckland Bluett. When news