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Description: | The coastguard station was built in 1880 at Newtown to accommodate an officer, eight men and their families. Prior to this four families had lived in an old wooden hulk that at one time did duty as a guard ship off Netley hospital. She was beached for coastguard purposes near the mouth of the river. When the station was built, James Lock bought the old hulk, had it towed up to Warsash and beached near the old saw pit, made some alterations, renamed it the Gypsy Queen and used it for crab and lobster teas in the summer and dancing in the winter. The old Gypsy Queen was eventually broken up and the villagers bought the timbers for burning.
The Coast Guard buildings, built of red brick, were later absorbed into the Warsash School of Navigation which was built in the surrounding area.
References:
1. Spotlight magazine. 1975.
2. F W L. 1992 Revised reprint.. Short history of Warsash, p, 9. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Spotlight Magazine | Subjects: | James Lock Netley Hospital building Warsash School of Navigation strawberry field ship street lobster hulk tea crab lane School of Navigation flag flagpole Gypsy Queen transport cottage coastguard industry hospital | Temporal: | start=1895-01-01; end=1905-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | L W Smith, Spotlight Magazine | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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