Why is Portsmouth called Pompey?
Hello friend, Portsmouth is famous city and a foot ball team. It is also called as Pompey because of the following reasons. * Legend has it that a snoozing, drunken sailor interrupted a lecture on the Roman Empire given by naval temperance worker, Dame Agnes Weston founder of the Royal Sailors Rests, ‘aggie weston’s’. Upon hearing that an emperor of that name had died, the sailor shouted out ‘Poor old Pompey’, the name then stuck and moved into common usage. * More reliable evidence records a group of Portsmouth-based sailors, who scaled Pompey’s Pillar near Alexandria, Egypt, in 1781 and became known as the ‘Pompey Boys’. * Portsmouth has been a port since Roman times, with nearby Portchester as a Roman military base. When the port started to be developed locals nicknamed it Pompey, because Pompeii was well known for its Roman ruins. * The pomp and ceremony connected with the Royal Navy at Portsmouth led to the adoption of the nickname, Pompey. * Bombay was part of the wedding gift of
