Well an early start was called for on this one and my it was worth it!!
Here is some history.
Some Pics..
Visited with none members Ben, Mike, Adam and Kerry. cheers guys
Oh, and by the way i would advise to watch out for the 'close line trap' that's in one of the corridors!!
Here is some history.
Royal Hospital Haslar
1753-2009
previously, the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar
The Royal Hospital Haslar was designed by Theodore Jacobsen and built between 1746–61. before that the land was Haslar Farm (though spelt Hasler Farm at the time) within the liberty of Alverstoke. The site was a slightly unusual location for a hospital because it was surrounded by the Gosport Creek, with no readily available access: such an area was chosen to prevent press-ganged sailors from absconding.
The site opened as a Royal Navy hospital in 1753. It has had a very long and distinguished history in the medical care of service personnel both in peacetime and in war since that time, treating many tens of thousands of patients.
Haslar was the biggest hospital – and the largest brick building – in England when it was constructed. Dr James Lind (1716–1794), a leading physician at Haslar from 1758 till 1785, played a major part in discovering a cure for scurvy, not least through his pioneering use of a double blind methodology with Vitamin C supplements (limes). The hospital included an asylum for sailors with psychiatric disorders, and an early superintending psychiatrist was the phrenologist, Dr James Scott (1785–1859), a member of the influential Edinburgh Phrenological Society. The Hospital had a number of notable specialist medical facilities, including a decompression chamber and a zymotic isolation ward.
It was primarily to serve the hospital that the Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery was laid out. It contains Commonwealth war graves of 763 naval personnel of World War I (two whom are unidentified), and 611 of World War II (36 of them unidentified), besides ten foreign sailors, and nine non-World War service burials. There is a mass grave of 42 officers and men of the submarine HMS L55, recovered from the Baltic Sea and repatriated in 1927, their names on a screen wall memorial. Singer Chick Henderson, killed in a German flying bomb attack in Southsea, Hampshire in 1944, is buried here under rank and real name of Sub-Lieutenant Henderson Rowntree.
1753-2009
previously, the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar
The Royal Hospital Haslar was designed by Theodore Jacobsen and built between 1746–61. before that the land was Haslar Farm (though spelt Hasler Farm at the time) within the liberty of Alverstoke. The site was a slightly unusual location for a hospital because it was surrounded by the Gosport Creek, with no readily available access: such an area was chosen to prevent press-ganged sailors from absconding.
The site opened as a Royal Navy hospital in 1753. It has had a very long and distinguished history in the medical care of service personnel both in peacetime and in war since that time, treating many tens of thousands of patients.
Haslar was the biggest hospital – and the largest brick building – in England when it was constructed. Dr James Lind (1716–1794), a leading physician at Haslar from 1758 till 1785, played a major part in discovering a cure for scurvy, not least through his pioneering use of a double blind methodology with Vitamin C supplements (limes). The hospital included an asylum for sailors with psychiatric disorders, and an early superintending psychiatrist was the phrenologist, Dr James Scott (1785–1859), a member of the influential Edinburgh Phrenological Society. The Hospital had a number of notable specialist medical facilities, including a decompression chamber and a zymotic isolation ward.
It was primarily to serve the hospital that the Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery was laid out. It contains Commonwealth war graves of 763 naval personnel of World War I (two whom are unidentified), and 611 of World War II (36 of them unidentified), besides ten foreign sailors, and nine non-World War service burials. There is a mass grave of 42 officers and men of the submarine HMS L55, recovered from the Baltic Sea and repatriated in 1927, their names on a screen wall memorial. Singer Chick Henderson, killed in a German flying bomb attack in Southsea, Hampshire in 1944, is buried here under rank and real name of Sub-Lieutenant Henderson Rowntree.
Some Pics..
And one of my fav
Visited with none members Ben, Mike, Adam and Kerry. cheers guys
Oh, and by the way i would advise to watch out for the 'close line trap' that's in one of the corridors!!
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