Culture And Memory

Gosport Waterfront Heritage Project

The Gosport Waterfront Heritage Project (GWHP) will work with local historians, teachers and young people to uncover historical information about Gosport’s coastline, which has always stood in the shadow of its larger neighbour -Portsmouth harbour. Young people will investigate historical archives/records revealing the history of Gosport’s changing coastline over the centuries. This one-off project aims to educate the local community of Gosport’s changing coastal landscape, from medieval defences/fortifications, to wartime efforts from Napoleonic Wars to WW2 D-Day operations. Through archives/records, historical photographs/artwork, and historical maps, it’ll also reveal Gosport’s lost trades/industries. Young people will work with professional artists, creating paintings of Gosport’s changing historical coastline. They’ll be upskilled learning new historical research and exhibition creation techniques, creating engaging exhibitions of their research and artwork for the wider community. The project will create GWHP teaching/learning resources for local schools, enabling hundreds of future young people to benefit from the projects’ legacy.