Lesley Ure – Growing up in Gosport

 I was the first recognised if you like English born child in my family. Growing up for us, it was quite interesting really. Obviously we weren’t … we’re not native to Gosport if you like. Growing up through schools it was just my sister and I in the schools at the time and that wasn’t the case with other families because they had lots of cousins and much larger families in school. We were quite small.

However, living in … so we actually lived in Armed Forces accommodation even though my dad wasn’t technically in the Armed Forces because he worked for the Ministry of Defence, so it almost felt like a little Scotland in some respects or it was certainly very multi-cultural. It was quite strange really.

I suppose I maybe grew up when I was little only seeing one part of Gosport, which was huge. I mean the whole of Rowner at the time was huge. It was all Armed Forces from all different parts of the country, UK, the world, you know all living together.

Lots of children, lots of play. It just felt like a massive playground really at the time.