Every Day is a School Day
Gosport Museum & Art Gallery, 19 Walpole Road, Gosport, Hampshire, PO12 1NS
The building that houses Gosport Museum and Art Gallery was opened in 1901 as a library, school of art and technical school. It was designed in the Art Nouveau style and evidence for the style can still be found, especially in the interior of the building.
Dot Bedenham will be the tour guide demonstrating both the outside (weather permitting) and the interior of the building. She will show how the architectural style, including features on the old classroom doors, banisters and glass, can still be seen. She will point out where art and science were taught and where girls learned to cook!
A souvenir photograph album showing the building, schoolteachers, pupils and classrooms was produced in 1914 and is a rare and wonderful discovery from that time. Rose Smith will show photographs from this remarkable album. She will identify Leslie Keating, Headmaster of the technical school and Ernest Draycott, Master of the school of art, and give an insight into the work of these early schools. Can she name other teachers, even pupils?
The narrative of both guides will be interspersed with memories of later pupils of the schools, some of it quite surprising!
Timings
- Friday 11 September:
- 1030
- Wednesday 16 September:
- 1030
- Friday 18 September:
- 1030
Location & directions
Gosport Museum & Art Gallery, 19 Walpole Road, Gosport, Hampshire, PO12 1NS
- Directions:
- Next to Morrisons supermarket
- Contact on day:
- Dot Bedenham
- Telephone number:
- +44784213469
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Pre-booking required
- Booking conditions:
- Please book online via the booking website, if you experience any difficulties with the booking system, please contact us.
- Booking email:
- [email protected]
- Booking website:
- https://www.gosportheritage.co.uk/booking-2026/
- Booking opens:
- 22 Aug 2026 09:30 AM
- Booking closes:
- 09 Sep 2026 05:00 PM
Accessibility details
Blue Badge parking available on-roads by venue. Other car parks close by. Please request need for 'Changing Places' on arrival so that it can be available.
Additional information
- Max number of people:
- 10
- Estimated duration:
- 2 hour(s)
