Andrew Negus is back by popular demand to give the second part of the Portsmouth story - not that you need to have heard the first one to appreciate Part II covering Portsmouth 1750 to 1850. We shall see how two Napoleons force the creation of world class defences around Portsmouth and force the Dockyard...
Two Churches - One Parish What was life like in Emsworth a hundred years ago ? The "100 Years of Faithful Service" exhibition commemorates the centenary of two parishes uniting. It features photographs, documents and artefacts relating to people, events and buildings in Warblington and Emsworth over the last century. Learn about the parishes and...
Our Treasure Hunt is back …. Starting and finishing at Emsworth Museum: 10B North Street, Emsworth PO10 7DDOpen to everyone be they young or oldEntry fee (in cash): £5 per personConcessions for young teams(guides, scouts, etc).
June 6th, 2024, will see the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the allied landing on the Normandy beaches. The Museum will be commemorating the event with an exhibition reflecting the lead up to D-Day and the impact on the local area and people connected to Emsworth. It is hard to comprehend the complexity of planning an...
Summer Walks Where: Guided 1½ to 2 hour walks looking at the history of Emsworth When: Wednesday evenings 5th June, 3rd July and 7th August Cost: £5 per head Meet: at Emsworth Museum in North Street by 6.15 pm. Walks must be booked in advance but can be paid for on the evening. Please email walks@emsworthmuseum.org.uk to...
Exhibition “Reflections” by Elizabeth Saunders and the Visual Marks Group. Each artist has interpreted ‘Reflections’ from their personal perspective and in their own unique style.Artists will be in attendance throughout the exhibition and will be delighted to tell you more about their work. Janet CairneyJanet FergusonWendy FlecknerSue EmeryHilary KimberMargaret MarksAnne RichesElizabeth SaundersBarbara Strange Opening timesFri...
The Museum occupies the offices and council chamber of the Warblington Urban District Council, built in 1900 before the council merged with Havant and Waterlooville. At the time, the council was responsible for the fire brigade which was manned by volunteers drawn from the local community. The fire station was included on the ground floor...
By Dr Ian Friel The talk is about some of the shipwrecks Ian researched as a historian – an English ship from the 1400s, a Dutch vessel from the 1600s, and a British passenger liner from the 1850s. The last of the three remains lost, and its story has odd resonances with that of the...
By Vivien Morgan ‘Cross-dressed to Kill’ is a book featuring a unique collection of extraordinary stories by twenty women cross-dressers of English, Irish, French, Prussian, Russian, Spanish, American and Israeli nationalities. There were literally hundreds of known women cross-dressers in Britain across Europe and in the Americas yet they have been erased from both social and military...
General Sir David Richards is one of the best-known British generals of modern times. In 2013 he retired after over forty years of service in the British Army and a career that had seen him rise from junior officer with 20 Commando to Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed...
This is the results of a two-year project investigating the time British author PG Wodehouse spent at the Nazi Internment Camp at Tost (now Toszek) in Silesia; it evaluates his own writing on the topic alongside the memoirs, letters and reminiscences of other former inmates in order to compile a compelling story of this civilian...
Andrew picks up the history in 1850 when billions of pounds were being spent to protect the navy and the dockyard was the largest factory complex in the world, employing over 4,000 people. The town was dangerous and filthy but over the next thirty years became healthier and wealthier, in general, though there continued to...