Stockheath School (34) - 3 July 1986

This picture is part of a very niche album which I regard as an important part of the social history of Havant in Hampshire.

Stockheath School was a repurposed Naval Camp and comprised infants and junior schools to support developing residential areas which grew in the Havant area (specifically Bedhampton and Leigh Park) as housing stock was built to replace some of that in war damaged Portsmouth and in response to population growth. It was located between Burgate Close and Hooks Farm Way with the infants school closer to Burgate Close. It was demolished in 1986 and that process was well under way when I took my pictures.

This view towards Hooks Farm Way (right) features the notoriously inhospitable toilet block which, perhaps inevitably, was amongst the last buildings to be demolished.

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