Coordinates: 50°50′N 1°04′W / 50.83°N 1.07°W / 50.83; -1.07
Hilsea is a district of the city of Portsmouth in the English county of Hampshire. Hilsea is home to one of Portsmouth's main sports and leisure facilities – the Mountbatten centre. Trafalgar School (forerly the City of Portsmouth Boys' School) is also in Hilsea. It is also the home of Portsmouth rugby football club
Located at the northern end of Portsea Island, for most of its history Hilsea was a small hamlet on the Portsmouth to London road. The boundaries of Portsmouth were not extended to encompass the hamlet until 1832. The last working farm in Portsmouth, Green Farm, was located in the area up to the 1990s. This area is now a residential estate and is marked by a pub and hotel known as the Green Farm.
Hilsea barracks were built in 1756. Over the decades they underwent various rebuildings and changes of use before being knocked down to allow for housing development in the 1960s.
In the years after 1926 Hilsea expanded with the building of the Hilsea Crescent Estate which was constructed on former allotments.
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He's not for you, ah-ah-ah
He just wants to spin you a line, ah-ah-ah
There's nothin' new ah-ah-ah
Just one thought on his mind
You know it's that kind you shoulda
Known when you met him you must be blind
Seems like only yesterday
That girl was mine in every way
People couldn't part us if they tried
Now she's turned her head away
She's lost her smile she's not so gay
Won't you come back to my side
Keep off of that friend of mine, ah-ah-ah
He's not for you, ah-ah-ah
He just wants to spin you a line, ah-ah-ah
There's nothin' new ah-ah-ah
Just one thought on his mind
You know it's that kind you shoulda
Known when you met him you must be blind
Seems like only yesterday
That girl was mine in every way
People couldn't part us if they tried
Now she's turned her head away
She's lost her smile she's not so gay
Won't you come back to my side
Keep off of that friend of mine
Keep off of that friend of mine
Keep off of that friend of mine