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,
Portsmouth and District Magic Circle Portsmouth and District Magic Circle The Portsmouth and District Magic Circle (PDMC) is a magicians' society based in Portsmouth in the English county of Hampshire. It is one of the largest magic societies in the UK with nearly 100 members. The society was founded in 1938 at a meeting in the Talbot Hotel in Portsmouth. Amongst its founding members were the close-up magician Lewis Ganson and the master illusionist Will Ayling, author of "The Art of Illusion" and "Oriental Conjuring and Magic". Another early member was the engineer and illusionist Donald Stevenson who worked for the American magician William Ellsworth