History of Portsmouth city to new developments such as Paulsgrove and Leigh Park. On 4 July 1968, an estimated 250,000 people witnessed the return of Alec Rose, a greengrocer in Osborne Road, after he completed his single-handed circumnavigation in "Lively Lady"; he was immediately knighted and made a Freeman of the city. 400 motor-boats, yachts, catamarans and canoes welcomed him into harbour. The University of Portsmouth gained university status in 1992 In 2003 erection was started of a 552 feet high Spinnaker Tower sited at Portsmouth Harbour, and celebrating the city's maritime tradition. Completed in 2005, the tower has twin concrete legs meeting
Voyage to the End of the Universe impressive production design, above-average special effects, a strong ensemble cast and an intelligent screenplay (although much of the subtlety of the original is lost in the English-language version). While it shows some influence from earlier American ventures such as "Forbidden Planet" (1956), the film was also influential in its own right — critics have noted a number of similarities between "Ikarie XB-1" and Stanley Kubrick's film "" (1968) and it is believed to have been one of the many 'space' genre films that Kubrick screened while researching "2001". Like several other high-quality Eastern Bloc sci-fi films of the era —