Tour of the former Royal Hospital Haslar site

The News Editor Kelly Brown takes a tour of the site to see the ongoing works

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00:00Hi there my name is Kelly Brown I'm the editor of the Portsmouth News and today I'm having a tour

00:04of the Royal Hostel Hasler site which is being redeveloped into new homes.

00:08Some of the residents have already moved into Canada House and we've got other buildings on

00:13site which are still being refurbished or being used for other purposes at the moment

00:19but much of the historic site is being retained. The only buildings that are being lost or have

00:25been lost are the ones that are not of historical interest and not the listed buildings but things

00:31like this watchtower are being retained. All this open space in the background is going to be

00:38reused so that we use by residents and then if we go over this way keep going around there's

00:45more buildings towards the original hospital building so this over in this far corner

00:55is what is now going to be known as Trinity House you just see it in the top and that is

01:01the latest part of the development where properties for there are going to go on sale shortly.

01:06Welcome to Royal Hasler and we're standing here in the courtyard of the first wing that we have

01:14refurbished of the former hospital which dates back to 1745 and residents will be moving in

01:21here in the next four to six weeks which is a milestone in the redevelopment of Royal Hasler.

01:28To date there's over 100 people living on site in other buildings that we've refurbished but this is

01:33the first building of the actual hospital or original hospital itself.

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02:05hello I'm Mark Trasler I'm chairman of Hasler Heritage Group. Hasler Heritage Group was founded

02:24to look after the history of the former Royal Naval Hospital at Hasler which was in use

02:32incredibly between 1753 and 2009. I'm standing in front of St Luke's Church. St Luke's Church really

02:42marked the end of the building but the main hospital it was originally designed

02:49designed as a four-sided quadrangle but not unheard of today they ran out of money

02:57and the fourth side was never built instead St Luke's Church was placed here to cater for the

03:07needs of the patients and staff of the hospital which indeed it has done for over 260 years.

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