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✨ Once Upon a Gosport ✨ celebrates Gosport’s unique history through storytelling and puppetry thanks to the Hampshire Cultural Trust Heritage Generator Grants funded by the The NLHF.💕 We are creating a set of puppet characters inspired by Gosport’s past.

It was a kinda puppet catch up and kinda new kitten play date. 🤣 But the new puppets and resources are ready and will be...
11/06/2026

It was a kinda puppet catch up and kinda new kitten play date. 🤣 But the new puppets and resources are ready and will be added into the kits... 🥰

You have options...

Book the puppets via email on www.onceuponagosport.com and collect from The Book Shop or arrange a drop off. We have two kits. 📨

Please share with local KS1 and KS2 educators who want to share Gosports history with puppets, stories, colouring, craft and more.💡

A big thank you to the lovely volunteers, puppeteer Sally Harvey and illustrator Rich Oakes Art ❤️

Share your thoughts... 😁😁😁The Once Upon a Gosport gang are joining forces with Gosport Heritage Open Days... 11th-20th S...
27/05/2026

Share your thoughts... 😁😁😁

The Once Upon a Gosport gang are joining forces with Gosport Heritage Open Days... 11th-20th September

Families are invited to meet colourful characters from Gosport’s history at Gosport Heritage Open Days. You can meet the puppets and enjoy storytelling, colouring, and hands-on creative activities. 🥰

We want to know where you will be and how you want to interact
with the puppet gang during this time... Let us know in the comments. 👇👇👇

09/05/2026

✨️✨️NEW PUPPETS ✨️✨️

We are so thankful to Gosport Borough Council's Heritage Grant for helping us to add two new puppets to our Once Upon a Gosport gang.

Introducing Jessie The Rat and Princess Anne The Hovercraft. Their tale finds adventure and honours our history by water... 🌊

From Nat Gonella performing in the High Street, The Mayor offering helpful advice, Dr James Lind and his cure for Scurvy and the brave solders from Hardway during the D-DAY... You'll have to read the book to find out more.

These puppets will be in the kit with their resources by the end of the month. 🙌

AMAZING support from the Gosport creators Sally from Mimics Productions and Rich Oakes Art and the FAB sewing Gang, Karen, Fi and Lyn. 💕💕💕💕

When the puppets met Mayor Cllr Kirsten Bradley... What a great time the Once Upon A Gosport gang had meeting the Mayor ...
08/05/2026

When the puppets met Mayor Cllr Kirsten Bradley...

What a great time the Once Upon A Gosport gang had meeting the Mayor of Gosport some weeks ago. 🥰

And a mayor being such an important role in Gosport's history and future, we decided to build a Mayor character into our next book.

Thanks for the visit, the gang loved their day out. 🤩

If you are a local educator, the puppets and resources are free to borrow... Just pop to the website.

New puppets incoming... 💕💕💕 Thanks to the incredible support and guidance from Sally Harvey Karen Webb Fiona Hampson Li...
08/04/2026

New puppets incoming... 💕💕💕 Thanks to the incredible support and guidance from Sally Harvey Karen Webb Fiona Hampson Lin Ord

Special thanks to GBC for their Heritage grant for helping us add some additional characters to our gang!

30/03/2026

Puppet madness as our Hovercraft puppet starts coming to life. 💕 It is so cool to showcase so many locations and stories through this project.

Thanks to Gosport Borough Council and their Heritage Grant for making this happen.

Also BIG thanks to our lovely sewers Karen and Fi. ✨✨✨

Oooh our lovely rat Jessie is coming to life. 💕💕💕 Thanks so much to puppetry legend Sally Harvey for this furry magic. ...
30/03/2026

Oooh our lovely rat Jessie is coming to life. 💕💕💕 Thanks so much to puppetry legend Sally Harvey for this furry magic. ✨

The puppets have found a new place to be... The Book Shop have temporarily adopted the gang and will not only be a place...
27/03/2026

The puppets have found a new place to be... The Book Shop have temporarily adopted the gang and will not only be a place to pick up and drop off for local educators but will also be running some activities for children. ✨✨✨

How wonderful. 💕

Super thankful for the team who fell in love with them immediately.

If you are a local educator and want to hire the gang... They are free... get in touch on the website.

26/03/2026

Hey everyone, Welcome to Once Upon A Gosport
You can come and meet our puppet gang on Saturdays in Gosport Museum and Art Gallery.

Starting THIS Saturday 28th March, then every last Saturday in the month, 11am-1pm, until the end of June. Come and meet us, learn about our stories, enjoy colouring in, make your own costume and more! Ask your adult to book today!

https://www.hampshireculture.org.uk/event/once-upon-gosport-puppets-museum-0

Introducing our newest characters.... Princess Anne the Hovercraft and Jessie the Rat (named after Jessie Mario White) T...
25/03/2026

Introducing our newest characters....

Princess Anne the Hovercraft and Jessie the Rat (named after Jessie Mario White)

This magical tale is about dreaming of a life outside of rat island, but being shown there is so much right here at home in Gosport.

We also see a feature in this new book for Nat Gonella, the Mayor of Gosport, Dr James Lind and more!!!! Our puppets and book are in production! Big shout out to Rich Oakes Art for his fab work and for their puppet mastery.

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