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In 2009 Portsmouth commemorated 65 years since the D-Day landings with a varied programme of events at the D-Day museum. These included a 1940’s style party and one million poppies being dropped from the skies over Castle Field. While the dockyard hosted “Royal Navy Past and Present” an event in July to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the laying of HMS Victory’s keel. This included tours of HMS Victory, being able to go onboard HMS Daring the Navy’s newest warship and the band of HM Royal Marines playing alongside HMS Victory.

The theme of the Portsmouth Festivities was the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the accession of Henry VIII, the building of the Mary Rose and the formation in the city of the modern navy. The Festivities ended with a Ghost Ship Pageant on Castle Field featuring fireworks, light and the burning of a ship. Also during 2009 Portsmouth hosted events celebrating 500 years since the building of the Mary Rose, 150 years since HMS Warriors keel was laid and 150 years since the birth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

On 5th January 2010 arctic conditions spread across the United Kingdom with Portsmouth being blanketed in thick snow which due to the low temperatures lasted until the 14th and resulted in most of Portsmouth’s schools closing. On 3rd June 2010 the Royal Navy welcomed the second of its class 45 destroyers into service in Portsmouth. HMS Dauntless joined the Daring as the second type 45 destroyer.

In the summer the Portsmouth Festivities took the theme of the Victorians – age of wonder and featured the South Coast Proms among an impressive programme of events and culminated in a daytime firework display which was set off by the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis and this followed on from the highly successful Ghost Ship finale in 2009. This paved the way for the Festivities theme of 2011 which is space. Also on 30th July Navy Days returned to Portsmouth with many ships being opened to the public, helicopter displays and a parachute display team as well as the Band Of Her Majesties Royal Marines and the event proved a huge hit with the visitors.

So lets wait to see what the rest of the new millennium has got in store for Portsmouth, lets hope the new millennium will allow Portsmouth to be as great a success as the last millennium.