Choose from family fun activities, history talks, exhibitions and guided walks during 6 – 15 September 2024
Gosport Heritage Open Days has organised 72 free events for this September, from 6-15 September.
For the first time Fort Brockhurst will be having two days with soldiers, rifles, canons and Luftwaffe pilots reenacting the Fort’s entire history.
Local Victorian philanthropist Henry Cook will be celebrated throughout the festival at the Imagination Refinery with activities, art and quizzes and even a couple of guest appearances!
Visitors can enjoy 36 new events this year ranging from navigating Gosport by Nose to hearing about toffs and toilets to learning about the significance of the Gosport Lines. Rowner is celebrated in 4 ways – an exhibition in the church, another in the Rowner Youth Arts & Media Centre, tours of Fort Rowner and a guided walk through Rowner’s history.
D-Day in Gosport will be celebrated with talks of spies and derring do, exhibitions of historical photos of Gosport during WW2, photographic and knitting displays and with radio controlled model ships and tanks showing how Allied forces landed on French soil and attacked a French village occupied by German Forces.
Printed programmes will be now available at the Provincial Bus Rally on 4 August and all around Gosport. Booking will open on Saturday 17 August at 0930 online and by phone. To avoid disappointment have ID, names of people in your party, times and dates handy. For those with Access issues only, the Imagination Refinery will have volunteers who can help make bookings.
