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Hall Affair
The Hall Affair resulted in the temporary halting of the demolition of The Hall, Gosport, Hampshire, England in January 1965 and marked a landmark change in attitudes towards conservation in post-war Britain. The events empowered ordinary people to take a stand against the destruction of their heritage in the name of modern development or redevelopment.
==Background==
Gosport is a town situated on the west side of Portsmouth Harbour on England’s south coast. It has, since the 18th century, been the repository of large establishments connected to Portsmouth’s Royal Naval Dockyard, which were not able to be accommodated within the Dockyard or within the crowded City of Portsmouth which surrounds it. These establishments included the R.N. Armaments Depot of Priddy’s Hard, the Clarence victualling yard, Haslar Royal Naval hospital, HMS Dolphin submarine base and the Lee-on-Solent Fleet Air-Arm base. Gosport had almost all its workforce working either in Portsmouth’s Naval establishments or in the Dockyard itself. In the 18th and 19th centuries the town was crowded with public houses and was set in elaborate fortifications protecting it from a landward attack.〔The buildings of England – Hampshire / Gosport – Prof Niklaus Pevsner and David Lloyd, Penguin Books, 1967〕
During the Second World War the town miraculously escaped much of the bombing of both Portsmouth City and Dockyard. Soon after the Town and Country Planning Act came into force in 1947, a large number of buildings in Gosport were listed by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government as being ‘of architectural or historical interest’. The town was highly significant as a surviving Georgian seaport. However, in the early 1960s the politics of the town were dominated by a socialist Labour council which was determined to replace the old seaport with a series of tall ‘system-built’ blocks of flats, inspired by seeing similar buildings on a junket to Moscow.〔’’Gosport From Old Photographs’’ – John Sadden, Amberley Publishing, Stroud 2012-10-24〕
By 1965 the redevelopment of the town centre had included the demolition of groups of buildings at Clarence Square, Chapel Row and The Green – and in the path of the next phase of tower blocks was a small enclave to the east of Holy Trinity Church comprising, in the last moated ravelin of the town’s fortifications, the former military governor’s house (an 18th-century building once visited by Jane Austen whose uncle had been Governor, and then in use as Holy Trinity’s vicarage) and The Hall, a Regency house, built for a shipyard proprietor c. 1830, in yellow brick with a gallery and cupola designed to catch views of the open sea beyond the harbour. The Hall had been purchased by Gosport Borough Council, and had been used as offices for the Borough Engineer.〔Monthly leaflet of Holy Trinity Church, Gosport – January 1965〕
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