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Millennium Promenade

You will walk down to the Museum on a footpath that forms part of Millennium Promenade - this stretches all the way along Gosport's fascinating waterfront from the Museum to Priddy's Hard, three thousand metres away. As you approach the T -junction, you will pass 33 Field Hospital's Equipment Park - an Army MASH for those who watch TV. Here we tell the story of the magnificent history of the Royal Army Medical Corps, our neighbours in Fort Blockhouse.

The Historic Roadway

You will notice how tarmac gives way to cobbles, and you will wonder why there is what appears to be a railway line set into them. In fact you are now 'up the creek'.

The line and the cobbles, carefully restored by Hampshire County Council, are what is left of the transport route that took sick sailors of the 18th and 19th centuries by horse-drawn carriage from Haslar Jetty to the former Royal Naval Hospital (now The Royal Hospital) to receive treatment they could not otherwise get on board ship. There is no need to expand on the chances of surviving a round trip to the hospital other than to mention the presence of the ancient culvert that runs underneath the road which carried away human debris to the Haslar Creek. So when Joe asked Jack 'Where is Fred?'. The simple response 'He is up the creek' would say it all!