Stockheath School (38) - 3 July 1986

This picture is part of a very niche album which I regard as an important part of the social history of Havant in Hampshire.

Stockheath School was a repurposed Naval Camp and comprised infants and junior schools to support developing residential areas which grew in the Havant area (specifically Bedhampton and Leigh Park) as housing stock was built to replace some of that in war damaged Portsmouth and in response to population growth. It was located between Burgate Close and Hooks Farm Way with the infants school closer to Burgate Close. It was demolished in 1986 and that process was well under way when I took my pictures.

The notoriously inhospitable toilet block was, perhaps inevitably, was amongst the last buildings to be demolished. I guess you could say it was built like a brick ..... well, you know what. Standing outside the toilet is what appears to be one of the ubiquitous flip lid desks which filled the classrooms. There could be no more enduring symbol of education at Stockheath.

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