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Nostalgic memories of Gosport's local history

Share your own memories of Gosport and read what others have said

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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Marked For Life
It's funny how we forget. I had forgotten all about this pool until I saw this picture. I shouldn't have though I still have the scares to prove I was there. If I remember correctly there was a waterfall in the shallow pool that was covered with some type of sharp pea shingle. I was climbing on the side of it, just as my mum called to me to get down I fell and slid down the side cutt my left knee ...see more
Gosport, the Bathing Pool c1960
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Added 12 September 2013

Swimming Lessons
I remember them well, especially a teacher called Naison ( think that's the spelling) Nasty wicked man almost drowned except for a good friend called Brent Pounds. Out of school hours and good weather it was one of the best places for a lot of people to meet up. Another GBC wrong decision to destroy one of the great things about Gosport. Still the same, Gosport sadly has gone downhill. Nothing for young people to do,very sad :0(
Gosport, the Bathing Pool c1960
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Added 27 October 2012

Happy Days For Me At This Place
I loved it here, swam all day, had lots of fun. I just wish it was still here today as it was a great place for many of us from Gosport.
Gosport, the Bathing Pool c1960
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Added 23 September 2011

Place Of My Birth
I was born in Gosport in 1959. As the daughter of a sailor we left a couple of times but always returned. I married at St Marys Alverstoke in 1980. I have very fond, maybe a little rose-tinted, memories of Gosport when I was growing up. From the late night bus trips to Lee, riding the ferry to Portsmouth for my first job, the many rowdy afternoons at Gosport and Fareham RFC (where I met my ...see more
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Added 04 August 2011

Not A Good Way To Teach Swimming!
As a pupil at Gosport High School, I had to attend swimming lessons first thing in the morning each week in the open-air, unheated pool at Gosport, in the school term following Easter. It was (literally) freezing cold and a horrible experience! On the first day, never having been in or even having seen a swimming pool before, I was pushed in to the deep end and clearly remember ...see more
Gosport, the Bathing Pool c1960
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Added 29 September 2010

Cold
This has bad memories for me. When I was a student of Bridgemary School in the first two years in the summer we had to go down by coach to the baths to learn to swim (at 57 I still cannot swim). It was always cold and we had little floats to help (not me), but it was no fun. This put me off pools for a long time.
Gosport, the Bathing Pool c1960
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Added 27 August 2009