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Month: August 2017

Outing to Winchester and Bucklers Hard – Saturday 19th August 2017.

Outing to Winchester and Bucklers Hard – Saturday 19th August 2017.

Members of Kingswood History Society boarded their coach at 8.00am for a visit to Bucklers Hard, via Winchester. Bucklers Hard is a unique 18th century village where warships for Lord Nelson’s navy were built. On site were the cottages that the workers lived in, a couple were open for viewing, giving an insight as to how people lived in the seventeen  hundreds, also, for us to look at was a museum which told the story of the warships built there….

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