Dockyard 800

Dockyard 800

A multi-period medieval to modern era living history show at

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

Victory Gate, H.M. Naval Base, Portsmouth PO1 4LJ. Tel: 023 9283 9766.

Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 September 2007

10am to 5.30pm

Timetable of displays and activities

Time	Display or activity	Performers	Location
10am	Dockyard opens	All	-
10.30am	Living history commences	All	-
	Victorian song	The Festival Players	Outside Storehouse 9
11.00am	Medieval archery	The Purbrook Company of Bowmen	Adjacent to Mary Rose Museum
	The Gunners Tale – life aboard HMS Victory	Tim Lowe, Royal Armouries	On the main deck of HMS Victory
	Victorian dockyard workers moving stores and promenading	The Festival Players	Outside Storehouse 9
11.30am	Victorian drill, musket and cannon firing	The Fort Cumberland Guard	Victory arena
	Readings from the memoirs of C19th sailor, adventurer and socialite, Basil Hall	Hands on History	Inside Boathouse No.4
	Medieval arms and armour	The Household and Erpyngham Retinue	Warrior arena
	Victorian dance	The Festival Players	Outside Storehouse 9
Noon	Trafalgar era 12-pounder* firing display, on replica gun deck**.	Master Gunner Ltd	Replica gun deck, adjacent to HMS Victory
	1940s music and song	The Spitfires	Boathouse No.4 (outside if fine)
	Nelson’s first triumph - The Battle of the Nile 1799, an interactive display	Ancient Wisdom	Outside Storehouse 9
12.30pm	Drill and firing display by Napoleonic riflemen	2^nd Battalion, 95^th Rifles	Warrior arena
	The Gunners Tale	Tim Lowe, Royal Armouries	On the main deck of HMS Victory
	Talk about Monitor M33	The Bluejackets	Monitor M33
	Victorian dockyard workers moving stores and promenading	The Festival Players	Outside SH9
1pm	C18th sailors' clothing and weapons, including musket firing.	The Senior Service	Victory arena
	Medieval archery	The Purbrook Company of Bowmen	Adjacent to Mary Rose Museum
	Squadron Scramble! Interactive Battle of Britain display ***	Ancient Wisdom	Outside storehouse 9
1.30pm	Soldiers from the Siege of Portsmouth, 1642	Colonel Robert Overton’s Regiment of Foot	Warrior arena
	Royal Navy cutlass drill (and a chance for children to have a go with foam “swords”	The Bluejackets	Monitor M33
	Readings from the memoirs of C19th sailor, adventurer and socialite, Basil Hall	Hands on History	Inside Boathouse No.4
	Starting Your Family Tree – a talk	Federation of Family History Societies	Storehouse 9 colonades
2pm	Trafalgar era 12-pounder* firing display (as Noon).	Master Gunner Ltd	Replica gun deck**, adjacent to HMS Victory
	Victorian military music	The Fort Cumberland Guard	Main entrance
	1940s fashion	The Spitfires	Boathouse No.4 (outside if fine)
	Victorian song	The Festival Players	Outside Storehouse 9
2.30pm	World War One gas mask drill	The Bluejackets	Monitor M33
	The Gunners Tale	Tim Lowe, Royal Armouries	Replica gun deck**, adjacent to HMS Victory
	Nelson’s first triumph (as 11.30am)	Ancient Wisdom	Outside Storehouse 9
3pm	Victorian drill, musket and cannon firing	The Fort Cumberland Guard	Victory arena
	Medieval arms and armour	The Household and Erpyngham Retinue	Warrior arena
	Victorian dance	The Festival Players	Outside Storehouse 9
	Readings from the memoirs of C19th sailor, adventurer and socialite, Basil Hall	Hands on History	Inside Boathouse No.4
3.30pm	The Gunners Tale	Tim Lowe, Royal Armouries	Replica gun deck**, adjacent to HMS Victory
	Soldiers from the Siege of Portsmouth, 1642	Colonel Robert Overton’s Regiment of Foot	Boathouse No.4 slipway arena
	Discovering your WWI naval ancestors – a talk	Federation of Family History Societies	Storehouse 9 colonades
	Talk about Monitor M33	The Bluejackets	Monitor M33
4pm	Trafalgar era 12-pounder* firing display, as Noon.	Master Gunner Ltd	Replica gun deck**, adjacent to HMS Victory
	1940s music and song	The Spitfires	Boathouse No.4 (outside if fine)
	Medieval archery	The Purbrook Company of Bowmen	Adjacent to Mary Rose Museum
	Victorian song and dance	The Festival Players	Outside Storehouse 9
4.30pm	Drill and firing display by Napoleonic riflemen	2^nd Battalion, 95^th Rifles	Warrior arena
	C18th sailors' clothing and weapons, including musket firing.	The Senior Service	Victory arena
	Squadron Scramble! (As 1pm)	Ancient Wisdom	Outside Storehouse 9
	Discovering your ancestors in Nelsons Navy	Federation of Family History Societies	Storehouse 9 colonades
5pm	Royal Navy cutlass drill (as 1.30pm)	The Bluejackets	Monitor M33
	Victorian military music	The Fort Cumberland Guard	Main entrance
5.30pm	Living history displays and Dockyard 800 close.	All	-

*kindly loaned by the Royal Armouries, Fort Nelson.

** Kindly loaned by English Heritage

*** Saturday 15 September is Battle of Britain Day (the 67^th anniversary of the decisive day during Britain’s resistance to the German Luftwaffe’s air assault, including on Portsmouth)

Ongoing living history to enjoy

In addition to timed displays, most of the above groups have living history displays for you to explore. Plus:

Living history next to HMS Victory by the Senior Service (c1765) and The Historical Maritime Society (C1805)
Find out about how HMS Victory was rigged with ropes, with the Victory Rigger and see The Victory Cutter afloat, near HMS Warrior
Meet Victorian officers, sailors and gunners of The Warrior Crew, on board HMS Warrior, including a fascinating medical officer’s display in the Gun Room.
Find out about foreign travel in Victorian times (including by Portsmouth-born Charles Dickins), and have a go at the electric telegraph. Plus there’s a chance for children to dress up, with Hands on History in Boathouse No.4
See Tudor food being cooked on the Mary Rose’s replica galley, by The Tudor Group
Meet Henry VIII and his wives, portrayed by Farthingale
See an C18th customs officer (recreated by History Horse) as he rides around the dockyard
Help Gerry Burrows with Victorian naval rope making, in front of Storehouse 10
Discover about heroic Edwardian polar exploration from the Antarctic Adventurers, by the statue of Captain Scott (adjacent to the main entrance)
WWII living history with 43 Recce’s military vehicles outside Boathouse No.4, plus Sittingbourne Homefront Living History Society, Young & Lovely Living history Group and US Navy Shore Patrol
Static military vehicle display by Solent Overlord Executive, outside Boathouse No.4
WWII NAAFI van from the Isle of Wight Austins – generously offering free tea for participants in period clothing (only)
D-Day exhibit by the Portsmouth D-Day Museum outside Boathouse No.4
Living history and displays commemorating the Battle for the Falklands in 1982, presented by Forces 80 and Past Regiments, opposite Boathouse No.4
Visit a fascinating selection of historical craftsmen and traders inside Boathouse No.4
Children can enjoy (safe) have-a-go medieval archery with Fairbow (a small fee applies) inside Boathouse No.4

Back to event introduction

Updated 11 September 2007

Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 September 2007

Time

Display or activity

Performers

Location

10am

Dockyard opens

All

-

10.30am

Living history commences

All

-

Victorian song

The Festival Players

Outside Storehouse 9

11.00am

Medieval archery

The Purbrook Company of Bowmen

Adjacent to Mary Rose Museum

The Gunners Tale – life aboard HMS Victory

Tim Lowe, Royal Armouries

On the main deck of HMS Victory

Victorian dockyard workers moving stores and promenading

The Festival Players

Outside Storehouse 9

11.30am

Victorian drill, musket and cannon firing

The Fort Cumberland Guard

Victory arena

Readings from the memoirs of C19th sailor, adventurer and socialite, Basil Hall

Hands on History

Inside Boathouse No.4

Medieval arms and armour

The Household and Erpyngham Retinue

Warrior arena

Victorian dance

The Festival Players

Outside Storehouse 9

Noon

Trafalgar era 12-pounder* firing display, on replica gun deck**.

Master Gunner Ltd

Replica gun deck, adjacent to HMS Victory

1940s music and song

The Spitfires

Boathouse No.4 (outside if fine)

Nelson’s first triumph - The Battle of the Nile 1799, an interactive display

Ancient Wisdom

Outside Storehouse 9

12.30pm

Drill and firing display by Napoleonic riflemen

2nd Battalion, 95th Rifles

Warrior arena

The Gunners Tale

Tim Lowe, Royal Armouries

On the main deck of HMS Victory

Talk about Monitor M33

The Bluejackets

Monitor M33

Victorian dockyard workers moving stores and promenading

The Festival Players

Outside SH9

1pm

C18th sailors' clothing and weapons, including musket firing.

The Senior Service

Victory arena

Medieval archery

The Purbrook Company of Bowmen

Adjacent to Mary Rose Museum

Squadron Scramble! Interactive Battle of Britain display ***

Ancient Wisdom

Outside storehouse 9

1.30pm

Soldiers from the Siege of Portsmouth, 1642

Colonel Robert Overton’s Regiment of Foot

Warrior arena

Royal Navy cutlass drill (and a chance for children to have a go with foam “swords”

The Bluejackets

Monitor M33

Readings from the memoirs of C19th sailor, adventurer and socialite, Basil Hall

2^nd Battalion, 95^th Rifles