The South Coast’s Forgotten Railway Workers

On display from Monday 29th September – Thursday 9th October

Who kept our area’s railways running in the past? What was working life like for them?

Come and find out in this engaging exhibition, focused on our region’s railway workers, part of ‘Railway 200’. Discover Walter Bridger, a signalman at Fishbourne who overcame adversity; Joseph Pannell, a goods worker at Portsmouth in the 1880s who was ‘held in the highest regard by his fellow employees’; and more. Ordinary people often have quite extraordinary stories! The exhibition was produced by the Havant Local History Group and the University of Portsmouth’s History team. It was funded by the University of Portsmouth Centre for Excellence in Heritage Innovation.

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