Fort Tourgis (Channel Islands) -- Summer 2017

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Fort Tourgis was built in 1855, and was designed to house 346 soldiers, and 33 heavy cannons.
It was re-used by the Germans when they invaded the Channel Islands in July 1940. They mounted two 105mm and 75mm guns, and numerous other light weapons around the fort.

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This building has really gone down hill over the 54 years I have known the place. We have nothing to do with the WW11 'heritage' of the islands. They were left to their own devices, in order to save civilian lives and all WW11 relics are of German making. However; it is the fortifications of the 1800's that interest many people - substantial buildings designed to house the many troops defending the Islands from a potential French invasion. That is our 'heritage' on these islands and it is a criminal shame that these important structures are just being left to rot. An old acquaintance said he thought it was deliberate, a ploy to push out of memory the fact that once the French were our mortal enemy. The English have been at log a heads with most of Continental Europe at some time in the historical past - the Channel Islands must have been a real thorn in the side of the Napoleonic Governments. Just sitting there, a few miles off their Channel Coast! But one cannot rewrite history; so why let structures decay, just because some people today do not like the historical facts?
 
Nicely done. I like your attention to detail as there are quite a lot of photographs and in your pictures you included the old-fashioned sineage. I see in some of your photos the brickwork still has traces of the original paint.
 

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