Midge Ure – Gosport was hit by the Navy leaving

A lot of the drinking establishments have gone. The George and Dragon, I say to my kids, I said to one of them the other week, “That used to be a really good …” You used to not get into there because you didn’t have the right clothes on.

Now you can walk in there in whatever you want. You’re maybe the only person in it at any time of the week.

They’d welcome you with open arms. Back then it was Bouncers to keep you out because you didn’t look right. It was definitely … so, Gosport has definitely suffered with the decline of the Navy.

You know, the Navy isn’t what it used to be, going from hundreds of thousands or a bit more to a reasonably small Navy now, dispersed across the country.

It’s definitely taken its toll, so a lot of things … I was saying earlier on about the facades of the … the frontages of Pubs, a lot of them are now turned into flats, and I’m not saying it’s wrong, because there’s no place for something like 300 Pubs to exist in Gosport.