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Wednesday August 23, 2017
What's On Portsmouth
Gallery Opening & Fragments private view and exhibition
Join us for the opening of Sticks Contemporary Gosport and the preview evening of our first exhibition in the space, FRAGMENTS, on Saturday 2nd...
Sticks Contemporary, Unit 15, Gosport Precinct, South St, Gosport
Sat 2 Sep, Wed 6 Sep to Sat 9 Sep, Wed 13 Sep to Sat 16 Sep, Wed 20 Sep to Sat 23 Sep, Wed 27 Sep to Sat 30 Sep, Wed 4 Oct to Sat 7 Oct, Wed 11 Oct to Sat 14 Oct
HMS Excellent (Whale Island)
Heritage Open Day: An Island constructed by convicts which became the first Naval Gunnery School ashore. Tour the grounds which once had a zoo....
Hms Excellent, Whale Island, Portsmouth
Sat 9 Sep and Sun 10 Sep
Mills around Portsmouth Harbour
Heritage Open Day: The Mills around Portsmouth Harbour worked exceedingly fast and hard grinding corn for bread during the Napoleonic Wars, but they...
Mezzanine Floor, Gosport Discovery Centre, High Street, Gosport
Thu 7 Sep
Guess the Mystery Objects
Heritage Open Day: Guess the Objects at the ’Museum on the Mezz’. What are they? How old are they? Did you ever use one of them? ...
Gosport Discovery Centre, Mezzanine Floor, , Gosport
Thu 7 Sep to Sat 9 Sep
’Elements’ by the Scrap Happy Quilters
Heritage Open Day: The Scrap Happy Quilters not only get crafty with scraps but they also get very creative depicting local scenes and heritage...
Gosport Discovery Centre, High Street, Gosport
Thu 7 Sep to Sat 9 Sep
Cycling in Gosport over the last 100 years – a presentation by Eric Thomas
Heritage Open Day: Cycling is obviously in Eric’s blood as his grandfather was a champion cyclist! Eric got his first bike as a reward for passing...
Gosport Discovery Centre, High Street, Gosport
Thu 7 Sep
Lost Pubs of Gosport - Talk by Dave Rowland
Heritage Open Day: Did you know that Gosport once had a windmill as a beer house? Do you remember when it seemed like there was a pub on every...
Gosport Discovery Centre, High Street, Gosport
Fri 8 Sep
Images of Gosport Past
Heritage Open Day: Local collector, Peter Greenaway, will be adorning the walls of the Gosport Discovery Centre with his popular display of pictures...
Gosport Discovery Centre, High Street, Gosport
Sat 9 Sep
A History of Pantomime
Heritage Open Day: Rob Clark’s talk based on his book “He’s Behind You! Oh No He’s Not!” covers the origin of pantomime down through the years...
Gosport Discovery Centre, High Street, Gosport
Sat 9 Sep
Meet the Local Authors
Heritage Open Day: Chaplin Books is an independent publishing house launched in Gosport in 2010, specialising in books on social history and film...
Gosport Discovery Centre, High Street, Gosport
Sat 9 Sep
Nursery Rhymes and their Origins
Heritage Open Day: Be amused by a film of Traditional Nursery Rhymes then let local writer and speaker, Rob Clark, explain the history behind each...
Gosport Discovery Centre, High Street, Gosport
Sat 9 Sep
Festival meets adventure at Victorious 2017
THIS year’s Victorious Festival promises to be the highlight of the summer with the introduction of the Kids Arena in Portsmouth.
The annual...
The Common and Castle Field, Southsea, Portsmouth
Fri 25 Aug to Sun 27 Aug
Lee-on-the-Solent Art Group Annual Exhibition
Heritage Open Day: This exhibition is a collection of works, all contributed by members of the Lee on the Solent Art Group. The display will include...
Explosion! Conference Centre, Heritage Way, Priddys Hard, Gosport
Thu 7 Sep to Sun 10 Sep
Shore Leave Haslar in the Memorial Gardens
Heritage Open Day: This 3 acre walled memorial garden is located in a quiet corner of The former Royal Hospital Haslar in Gosport. It is looked after...
The Memorial Gardens, Haslar Hospital, Haslar Road, Gosport
Sat 9 Sep and Sun 10 Sep
History of Gosport Methodist Church in Pictures
Heritage Open Day: Fascinating snapshot views of this church through time, from 1890 until the present day.
In fact, in 1989 the church suffered a...
Methodist Church, Stoke Road, Gosport
Thu 7 Sep to Sat 9 Sep
HMS St Vincent Association Museum and Tour
Heritage Open Day: HMS St Vincent (Gosport shore establishment) was a boy/junior training establishment from 1927 to 1969. The museum tells the...
St. Vincent College, Forton Road entrance, Gosport
Thu 7 Sep to Sun 10 Sep
Gosport Jazz Club - Traditional Jazz
Bob Dwyer’s Bix & Pieces
Gosport & Fareham Rugby Football Club, Dolphin Crescent, Gosport
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Gosport Jazz Club - Traditional Jazz
Jeff Barnhart(USA)’s Sweet & Hot Quartet with Anne Barnhart, Spats Langham & Graham Smith.
Gosport & Fareham Rugby Football Club, Dolphin Crescent, Gosport
Wed 6 Sep
Gosport Jazz Club - Traditional Jazz
Janice Day’s Sweetie Pie, featuring Keith Nichols, Enrico Tomasso, Martin Wheatley & Trevor Whiting.
Gosport & Fareham Rugby Football Club, Dolphin Crescent, Gosport
Wed 20 Sep
St Francis Church Open Day
Heritage Open Day: Look inside this wonderful tin tabernacle. See the church set out for usual Sunday service. Memory book available to read and...
St Francis Church, Clayhall Road, Alverstoke, Gosport
Sat 9 Sep
Eastney Beam Engine House Open Days
Heritage Open Day: A special opening of the Eastney Beam Engine House museum - an impressive Victorian building containing a pair of classic Boulton...
Eastney Beam Engine House, Henderson Road, Eastney, Portsmouth
Sat 9 Sep and Sun 10 Sep
Local Naval History full of Turkish and Ship Filled Mysteries
Heritage Open Day: Settle in with an introductory talk followed by a guided walk of graves and memorials telling Gosport’s Naval History from...
51 Clayhall Road, Gosport
Thu 7 Sep to Sun 10 Sep
’Roll up - Roll up. Don’t be Shy & Give it a Try’
Heritage Open Day: Try the game which made Sir Francis Drake famous!
The game of Bowls is truly an outdoor sport for all. It can be played by all...
Gosport Bowling Club, Anglesey Gardens, 1 Anglesey Road, Gosport
Thu 7 Sep
A Blast from the Past - Compton Cinema Organ
Heritage Open Day: This really is a hidden gem because this unique 1934, 3 manual Compton Cinema Pipe Organ is usually tucked away unseen behind the...
Thorngate Halls, Bury Road, Gosport
Sun 10 Sep
Flora and Funeary
Heritage Open Day: A guided walk around the Old Cemetery of Annes Hill, looking at the history of the site,the significance of the planting in the...
Old cemetary Annes Hill, Annes Hill Rd, Gosport
Fri 8 Sep to Sun 10 Sep