Click on the thumbnails below to expand cuttings from The News and other items describing the transformation of HMS Vernon into the Gunwharf Quays millennium development.  Items from The News of Portsmouth and the Navy News are reproduced by kind permission of David Brown and Jim Allaway respectively. 

 

Link to Gunwharf Quays

 


16 May 1998 - Initial plans for the development of Gunwharf Quays

 

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Mid 1998 - HMS Vernon after demolition of the Mining Trials Tank and Scott Block  

 

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6 Oct 1998 - Creasy Building being 'nibbled' by a monster

 

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19 Nov 1998 - Demolition of HMS Vernon in progress

 

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4 Jan 2000 - Aerial views during the building of Gunwharf Quays

 

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5 Dec 2000 - Gunwharf - Past and Future

 

 

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 26 Feb 2001 - Gunwharf Quays plans coming to fruition

 

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22 May 2003 - Plans for replacement of Ariadne (old Wardroom) and Donegal Lodge (Captain's House) at Gunwharf Quays

 

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28 June 2003 - View from the top of Gunwharf Quays Spinnaker Tower including part of old HMS Vernon (N.B. Vulcan Building)

 

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16 Aug 2003 -  Plans to develop Vulcan Building

 

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22 Aug 2003 -  More plans for Vulcan Building

 

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26 Sep 2003 -  Summer Success of Gunwharf Quays

 

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11 Oct 2003 -  Failed attempt to base veteran IOW ferry MV Southsea at Gunwharf Quays 

 

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20 Oct 2003 -  Gunwharf Quays receives regeneration award 

 

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1 Nov 2003 -  HMS Marlborough Figurehead restored and returned to Gunwharf

 

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18 Nov 2003 - Gunwharf Quays lets first Canalside unit (where Creasy Building used to stand)

 

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19 Nov 2003 - Gunwharf Quays named best redevelopment in Britain

 

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26 Nov 2003 - Gunwharf Quays to host British leg of Timberland Euro Prix yacht race

 

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4 Dec 2003 - Plans for 29-storey tower block at Gunwharf Quays

 

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20 Feb 2004 - New plans for 'Lipstick' tower block and apartments on site of Ariadne building (old Vernon Wardroom) plus some eye-catching photographs

 

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