PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION (ACTION STATIONS PORTSMOUTH) *

Saturday August 18th All night Ghost hunt/Paranormal investigation & buffet,with 7 experienced members of staff. 10.30pm-6.00am The building was designed by Lieutenant Roger Beatson, Royal Engineers, Portsmouth Dockyard’s Superintendent of Civil Engineering Work, and built between 1845 and 1848. It was used for the building, repair and storage of small ships’ boats. These were pulled up one of the three slipways outside the front of the building from the Mast Pond by hand using block and tackle, then brought into the building through large wooden doors. Some of the rings used still survive along the front of the building and are set into the ground floor. The building was in use as a boathouse until the Portsmouth Blitz in March 1941, when a bomb destroyed much of the rear part. A temporary patch was added to make the building serviceable and was not replaced until the conversion into Action Stations in the late 1990s. this is quite an amazing building and although used as an attraction as much of the asthetics of the building have been maintained, bare walls, exposed brickwork and the huge iron floor bearers have been kept. for me i was quite taken back when 2 of the team visited to make the booking, whilst walking round we began picking up on various stuff in various areas, athough we asked for the manager not to divulge any details or specifics whilst walking round his face and expressions gave some conformation that we were on the right track. so why not join us and investigate this amazing building!