I thought I'd make this my first proper thread...
I found this place on the map so we went to have a look whilst we were onto the Isle of Wight at Easter.
It was a bit of a shock to say the least, I was expecting a pile of earth!
Its an old Palmerston fort, built to help protect Portsmouth from the French. It was used during WWI and again during WWII as an anti aircraft station, you could still see some of the gun placements.
Place was locked up as tight as could be (there's a company who have some aerials in there) but it is opened every now and again by the National Trust in IoW, will have to go to one of these because it fascinated me!
There's a bit more info here
http://islandupdate.org/History.aspx
I'm pretty sure there is an AA gun placement at the top in this one
It had these at all the corners
And very pretty walls!
I would liked to have got more pics but my camera memory was full. There were what may have been air vents the whole way round the outside, my sister's foot kept going down them!
We also explored all the NT and EH sites (I may have been sick on King Charles II's bowling green at Carisbrooke Castle, oops!) and a very intriguing, tiny little church and very old grave yard, but unfortunately we were having to rush for the ferry and camera memory card was completely full by then so only got two pics on my phone and don't know how to get them on here!
Hope you enjoy and hope I did it all right!
I found this place on the map so we went to have a look whilst we were onto the Isle of Wight at Easter.
It was a bit of a shock to say the least, I was expecting a pile of earth!
Its an old Palmerston fort, built to help protect Portsmouth from the French. It was used during WWI and again during WWII as an anti aircraft station, you could still see some of the gun placements.
Place was locked up as tight as could be (there's a company who have some aerials in there) but it is opened every now and again by the National Trust in IoW, will have to go to one of these because it fascinated me!
There's a bit more info here
http://islandupdate.org/History.aspx
I'm pretty sure there is an AA gun placement at the top in this one
It had these at all the corners
And very pretty walls!
I would liked to have got more pics but my camera memory was full. There were what may have been air vents the whole way round the outside, my sister's foot kept going down them!
We also explored all the NT and EH sites (I may have been sick on King Charles II's bowling green at Carisbrooke Castle, oops!) and a very intriguing, tiny little church and very old grave yard, but unfortunately we were having to rush for the ferry and camera memory card was completely full by then so only got two pics on my phone and don't know how to get them on here!
Hope you enjoy and hope I did it all right!