Calling all Heritage buffs
To get involved and organise heritage events 6-15 September 2024 2024 sees the country’s largest festival of history…
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March 7, 2024
A Day We Will Never Forget: D-Day, 6 June 1944
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June 6, 2023
PUTTING GOSPORT’S CREATIVES ON THE MAP
- HERITAGE OPEN DAYS CREATIVITY UNWRAPPED THEME 2023 ANNOUNCED GOSPORT, 27 February 2023: Heritage Open Days will be…
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March 1, 2023
INTRODUCING HAMPSHIRE HISTORY PODCASTS – HISTBITES
Gosport Heritage Open Days will be working with the Histbites team to cover culture in the wider Hampshire…
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September 13, 2022
Great British Carnival London Queen Elizabeth Olympic PArk London 27TH July 2014
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FIRST YEAR GOSPORT HERITAGE OPEN DAYS HAS A CARNIVAL!
Family carnival and costume parade set to dress the streets of Gosport A new Gosport carnival, known as…
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August 26, 2022
TODAY’S THE DAY BOOKING OPENS!
From 09:30am you’ll be able to reserve places at your favourite events. This year we’ve been writing stories…
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August 20, 2022
Col. Bogey’s Birthplace
Col. Bogey’s Birthplace By Rear Admiral R W Paffard, CB, CBE In his book “British Golf”, Bernard Darwin…
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August 19, 2022
Looking along Fort Blockhouse battery to the Solent
BEST BOOKING ADVICE
BOOKING OPENS AT 9:30AM ON 20 AUGUST 2022 Book here https://www.gosportheritage.co.uk/booking-2022/ Every year there are thousands of delighted…
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August 18, 2022
Royal Naval Cemetery – Clayhall Road
Do you know the fascinating history of the Royal Navy Cemetery at Clayhall Road? The Royal Hospital Haslar…
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August 17, 2022
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT
Having previously been known as just Lee and much further back Lebritan, Lee-on-the-Solent gained its current title in…
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August 16, 2022
Common seal of Alverstoke
(credit to British History Online)
Did you know? 9 facts on Alverstoke
Alverstoke is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Alwarestock The name 'Alverstoke' is most likely to be derived…
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August 15, 2022
Smith-Barry with his wife Kitty and with Lieutenants Moore (left) and Parker (right) at Alverbank, Stokes Bay Gosport. Alverbank was used by Smith-Barry as an extension to the Officers’ Mess of Grange airfield. He conducted his experiments on the Gosport Tube at the house.
ASTOUNDING INVENTIONS – The Gosport Tube
Did you know that the Gosport Tube, a method of enabling instructors to talk to trainee pilots was…
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August 14, 2022