Welcome

Welcome to my website which contains photographs taken in and around Alverstoke, Anglesey and the Haslar peninsula.

Most of Alverstoke was built after a tidal creek, which had ebbed and flowed through a mediaeval Alverstoke, was drained and reclaimed just before 1800. The reclaimed land was gradually snapped up by Victorian developers especially along the newly constructed Village Road, once the bed of the creek. The area became fashionable in Victorian times as a watering place with many fine houses, not least of which are those in the Grade II* Listed Crescent which also contains the Georgian Gardens. 

Stokes Bay, with its shingle beach, offers views across the Solent to the Isle of Wight with much sailing and shipping activity. There are a number of fortifications in the area and in Victorian times a railway that ran to a pier providing a ferry connection to the Isle of Wight. During WW2, the bay was the location for the construction of caissons for the Mulberry Harbours shipped to France for the D-Day landings. 

Situated on the Haslar Peninsula are Fort Blockhouse, Haslar Hospital and the Barracks with a vehicle bridge over Haslar Lake to Gosport. 

Key Dates

1801: a new workhouse built. Workhouse Lake is named after it

1753: Haslar Hospital opened as a hospital for sick or injured sailors

1785: Fort Monckton built

1795: a bridge built over Haslar Lake in 1795 but it was so unsafe it was destroyed in 1801

1835: a second bridge built over Haslar Lake

1842: pier built at Stokes Bay for the convenience of Queen Victoria when she travelled to the Isle of Wight

1850s: a ring of forts built around Gosport and Portsmouth

1858 – 1862: Forts Gilkicker and Gomer built

1850s: Fort Blockhouse rebuilt with gunboat sheds built

1820s: Robert Cruickshank attempted to build a new seaside resort at Anglesey

1891: Gosport Park was laid out on the site of Ewer Common.

1859: naval cemetery at Haslar opened

1863: railway extended to Stokes Bay

1980: Haslar Bridge rebuilt designed for vehicles

Photo Gallery

Listed Buildings - Alverstoke

                               - Anglesey

Haslar Peninsula

Place Names

Invasions  -  Stokes Bay Lines

                     -  Preparation for D-Day

Old Photos

Old Maps

Contact