This museum is open during weekends from 10 am to 4 pm and it describes naval warfare from the times of gunpowder to the missiles used today. Another museum that details the history of the navy is th e Royal Navy Submarine Museum. Visitors partake in a guided tour of the HMS Alliance WW2 submarine, guided by a submariner, or get aboard the Holland 1, the first submarine of the Navy from Museum of Diving is a top-notch family-friendly museum located in Gosport.
It has fascinating exhibits which cover all aspects of deep sea diving, from the first-ever diving helmet in the world to modern military, business, and scientific diving apparatus. It even showcases the equipment used in James Bond movies. More James Bond equipment can be found at the Hovercraft Museum. Moreover, the Hovercraft Museum also houses a wide range of military hovercrafts, sports hovercrafts, a large cross channel hovercraft, and some hovercrafts that have been featured in programmes such as Top Gear, Salvage Squad TV and Scrapheap Challenge.
The Living History Village takes visitors back in time. Meet and interact with the villagers clothed in period costumes as they showcase the old age skills of blacksmiths, lace makers, weavers and potters. Visitors can also take a leisure cruise on the Gosport Ferry.
Cruises are open from May to September and visitors can take in scenic and exciting locations like Beaulieu Rivers, Hamble and Portsmouth Harbour. People can also view superb sights of the ships in dock and Spinnaker Tower. It is a great way to spend a fun day out with family and friends.
During summer April to October , visitors can visit the Portsmouth Harbour Waterbus and have a great time enjoying Portsmouth and Gosport tourist attractions. This is a great way to beat the summer heat. Sailing and other water sports are a very popular attraction in Gosport because the town is surrounded by water.
However, there is also a wide range of land activities such as 2 golf courses, football, tennis clubs, and rugby clubs. In addition to the 3km Waterfront trail, ha of Alver Valley Country Park, and 27ha of Wildgrounds nature reserve, and the beaches located at Lee-on-the-Solent and Stokes Bay, Gosport offers visitors and locals numerous routes for cycling, walking and running.
About the author: Marta Kovachek is the author of this article. Besides this it has a principal street, extending eastward from the ferry, other parallel streets, and several intersecting them. By the population of Gosport had passed 16, but over 7, of them still lived inside the walls.
Nevertheless, by the s the settlement of Forton was growing. Camden Town grew up in the s and was named after an area of London. In the late 19th century Alverstoke became completely built up and the fields separating it from Gosport disappeared. Gosport Park was laid out in on the site of Ewer Common. Around the same time, Walpole Park was laid out on a piece of land called the Horsefield. In the main gate was demolished with parts of the ramparts.
In Gosport suffered an epidemic of cholera and people died. The grand sum of pounds was spent clearing away filth and garbage from the streets but no attempt was made to provide proper drains or sewers. At the time the only drains were gulleys at the sides of roads. Most people in the old part of Gosport used cesspits, which were often located under buildings. There was the old moat around Gosport, which was filled with, rubbish. The stench from it was said to be unbearable. In there was an epidemic of smallpox.
There were so many cases tents were erected on wasteland that is now Gosport Park to provide extra accommodation for the sick. There were many deaths. In there was an epidemic of typhoid. Gosport and Alverstoke Urban District Council was formed in but they did not begin to build proper drains and sewers until It was ready by Gosport did obtain a piped water supply in In the naval cemetery at Haslar was opened.
Gosport gained its first volunteer fire brigade in It was taken over by the council in For centuries rowing boats had carried people and goods across the harbour.
In Gosport was connected by railway to Southampton via Fareham. In an extension was built to Stokes Bay. In an extension was made to Lee on Solent. In horse-drawn trams began running in Gosport. They were replaced by electric trams in Gosport obtained its first public library in In it moved to a building in Walpole Road, which is now the museum. In a man named Blake opened an isolation hospital for people with infectious diseases.
It later became Blake Maternity Hospital then a maternity home. Gosport is sometimes called Turk Town. It is believed it is because in ships from the Turkish navy were at anchor off the town. Some Turkish sailors died during that time and they were buried in Gosport. In the 20th century, Gosport continued to thrive.
The submarine base at Gosport dates from The population of Gosport reached 32, by and rose to about 50, by In Gosport became a Borough. Gosport was also given a grant from the central government to provide work for the unemployed. Lawn tennis courts were built at Stokes Bay, so was a promenade. The old cockle pond was turned into Gosport Model Lake. The old cobbled hard was filled in and the esplanade Ferry gardens were built. In they were renamed the Falklands Gardens. In the early s, the first council houses were built in Gosport, some of them.
Then in the s Elson and Hardway became built up. Dockyard workers occupied many of the new houses because the rents were cheaper than those in Portsmouth.
Meanwhile in Forton barracks was turned into St Vincent training school for young sailors, it closed in The last trams ran in Gosport in They were replaced by buses. Then in Privett park sports ground was laid out for cricket, hockey, and football.
During the Second World War 11, houses were damaged in Gosport and nearly were destroyed. Furthermore, civilians were killed and were wounded in Gosport. In the council began to build a new council housing estate at Bridgemary and Rowner.
German POWs built the first houses. Building continued through the late s and s. Many of the new houses were prefabs. They were made in sections in factories and could be erected in a few days. Between and new flats were built in the area south of South Street, which had suffered severely in wartime bombing. There were 11 story flats and 16 story flats as well as 4 and 5 story flats.
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