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This memorial sits near the waters edge in the Elson area of Gosport, and was erected to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day, specifically the embarkation of troops from a slipway which is immediately adjacent to this site. It is one of several sites throughout Gosport that either directly commemorate or act as aContinue reading “1050 – D-Day”

The picture is of Tadnoll Heath in Dorset, looking towards the Purbeck Hills. The Heath is a nature reserve, a site of special scientific interest and a Ramsay site (which I had never heard of before today) that is a site of international importance under the Ramsay convention that deals with the conservation of wetlands.Continue reading “1049 – Tadnoll Heath”

I am very sorry, I am completely unprepared for a post tonight, I recognise that this is close to the equivalent of not posting, but I want to keep the count the count running.

I was going to write a piece about a famous musician who was born in Islington, but live a large part of his life in Gosport. Nat Gonella was a Jazz Trumpeter, here’s a video of some of his music; https://bit.ly/Nat_Gonella There is a square in town named after him, and this sculpture is locatedContinue reading “1047 – Nat Gonella”

I have written about Locality and how it came about in earlier posts. This being the 1046th post I’m not going to plough through the posts to identify where I’ve written about it. The point of locality is to learn about the history of the area, and. I haven’t been doing that much recently. I’veContinue reading “1046 – Re-engaging Locality”

Don’t worry, it’s not permanent. It’s just that every so often, my interests rotate. So, once again I find my interest in my Nikon rekindled except I can’t find any of the batteries for it, and my interest in toy photography is back so I am once again watching Sir Dork videos on you tubeContinue reading “1045 – Goals Changing”

For the first time in nearly three weeks (actually, it’s only a day short) I did an early morning walk of Gosport town centre. Not my normal walk, in that I cut it short by about a mile. I enjoyed the walk, the weather was lovely the sun shone with a delightful warmth, even atContinue reading “1044 – Gosport Walking”

If things go according plan tomorrow morning, I will be waking up early enough to go for a walk, even if it is only to the waterfront or back. I’m quite keen to see how the towns wilding patches are doing. I walk past a couple of them and they have been doing nicely. OfContinue reading “1043 – Morning Walks”

I’ve left it too late tonight, sorry. We had a walk in to Gosport this morning, well nearer midday really. The hight street was Pretty busy. We were surprised to see a number of Morris Dancer groups around the town. weatherspoons was particularly busy. When we reached the waterfront, we stopped and asked one ofContinue reading “1042 – Gosport Music”

Between the train in the header picture, and the entry in Gosport’s next entry in the timeline that says “1540 Gosport described as a little village. It isn’t so much Gosport as a little village that I want to write about Rather it is a little community hidden away in a quiet corner of theContinue reading “1041 – There’s no link…”