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Palmerston Forts Society
Добавлен 16 апр 2021
This RUclips channel is an archive for video material related to the Palmerston Forts Society. If you are interested in fortifications of the 19th century please visit us on our website or Facebook and Instagram pages using the links below.
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You can find out about joining the society through our website or by dropping a mail to:
enquiries@palmerstonfortssociety.org.uk
Fort Gilkicker 27th July 2024
Fort Gilkicker 27th July 2024
Here is another drone video from our partner Mike Atthis.
This video starts with a sweep from east to west along the fighting face of the fort and then returns via the gorge face to give us an east to west view of the roof.
You can see the brickwork construction of the new parapet wall is nearly complete. In particular, most of the replacement chimney stacks have now been completed. These replacements are not functional but restore part of the look of the fort as it was in the 19th century.
Here is another drone video from our partner Mike Atthis.
This video starts with a sweep from east to west along the fighting face of the fort and then returns via the gorge face to give us an east to west view of the roof.
You can see the brickwork construction of the new parapet wall is nearly complete. In particular, most of the replacement chimney stacks have now been completed. These replacements are not functional but restore part of the look of the fort as it was in the 19th century.
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Fort Nelson in 2009
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Fort Nelson in 2009 This is a bit of a treat. This film made by Karisma Productions in 2009 gives a short introduction to Fort Nelson, the home of the Royal Armouries artillery collection. Curator of Artillery (at the time) Phil Magrath gives the viewers a history of the fort from conception to the present day. His talk is illustrated with images of the fort, firing of the 25pr. and rather rand...
Fort Gilkicker 9th June 2024
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Fort Gilkicker 9th June 2024 Here is another drone video from our partner Mike Atthis. This short video starts with a view from the south with Fort Monkton to the right and Portsmouth Harbour in the distance. We then do a circuit from east to west looking down at the fort. You can see the brickwork now being done on the restoration of the Casemate 2 vault (second to last in the video). This is ...
Battery No. 2 of the Stokes Bay Lines
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Battery No. 2 of the Stokes Bay Lines This drone video was taken in June 2024 by our partner Mike Atthis. Battery No. 2 is occupied by the Gosport Diving Museum. The museum is closed this year while a programme of repairs, renovation and improvements are being carried out. The Diving Museum is running a blog page about the work on their website where there are lots of photos. This video, which ...
Spitbank Fort 2012
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Spitbank Fort 2012 This video from Forces TV takes us on a tour of Spitbank Fort as it was in 2012. We have put it in our archive because it nicely captures the fort at that time. At the time of uploading this in 2024, the fort has just been sold for barely over £1million and the identity and intentions of the new owner are unknown. Gosport Bastion no. 1, Browndown Battery, Fort Gilkicker, Hors...
Newhaven Fort 30th May 2024
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Newhaven Fort 30th May 2024 Here is another drone video from our partner Mike Atthis. This 2 minute video gives us a complete sweep around the perimeter of the fort. At the time of filming, Newhaven Fort is closed for the season as it is partway through a multi-million pound upgrade. You can see work being done on the casemates and the repair work on the large “Romney Hut”.
Fort Southwick 27th May 2024
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Fort Southwick 27th May 2024 Here is another drone video from our partner Mike Atthis. This short video shows us part of the Redan and gorge face of Fort Southwick.
Fort Monkton 12th May 2024
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Fort Monkton Here is another drone video from our partner Mike Atthis. It is a flyby of the south east fighting face of fort Monkton. Fort Monkton is a bastioned fortification bult in 1780s. When the 1859 Royal Commission reviewed Fort Monckton it was considered to be well out of date. The fort’s main role was relocated to the new Fort Gilkicker but Fort Monckton remained armed with a minor rol...
Fort Gilkicker 12th May 2024
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Fort Gilkicker 12th May 2024 Here is another drone video from our partner Mike Atthis. It takes us from the access road through the golf course, around the embrasures You can see that the bank in front of the embrasures is being levelled - giving an idea of the nice view across the Solent that the apartment owners will have. You can see that the brickwork in the vaulted roof of Casemate 10 (nea...
Littlehampton Fort 1st May 2024
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Littlehampton Fort 1st May 2024 Here is another drone video from our partner Mike Atthis. Construction of Littlehampton Fort was begun in 1854 before the Royal commission of 1859. With Shoreham Fort and Forts Gomer and Elson in Gosport, it is one of the first “polygonal” forts built in the UK. Like Shoreham Fort, it features a Carnot Wall in the ditch which can be clearly seen in this video. Th...
Fort Gilkicker 24th April 2024
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Fort Gilkicker 24th April 2024 Here is another drone video from our partner Mike Atthis. This is a nice 2 minute sweep all the way round the fort starting and ending with the barracks block and the Artillery Store (the building with PV panels on the roof. As we swing from east to west you can see: The new roof slab on top of Casemates 22, 21, 20, 19 The concrete fill on the restored roof of Cas...
13 inch Mortars at Fort Nelson - Firing
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13 inch Mortars at Fort Nelson - Firing A unique nighttime double firing of two 13” Mortars at Fort Nelson. This is from Richard Holme’s “The age of the Gun” made in 1991.
13 inch Mortars at Fort Nelson
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13 inch Mortars at Fort Nelson A short local TV news story of 2016 about a planned firing by the Portsdown Artillery Volunteers of one of the 13 inch mortars at Fort Nelson. Phil McGrath who was Curator of Artillery at Fort Nelson at that time, describes how the mortar and how it was intended to be used as intermediate defence against an enemy in the field or enemy entrenchments. Phil also expl...
The Portsdown Artillery Volunteers firing the 32pr SBBL
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The Portsdown Artillery Volunteers firing the 32pr SBBL Here is another video from our recently digitised archives. Here we see The Portsdown Artillery Volunteers firing the 32pr SBBL in the double caponier at Fort Nelson. The film was made in the late 80s. We think that it was 1988 - just four years after the Palmerston Forts Society was formed. The SBBL 32-pounder was a British smooth-bore br...
A short film about Fort Nelson from 1988
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A short film about Fort Nelson from 1988 Here is another video from our recently digitised archives. Here we see a tour of Fort Nelson filmed by one of our members as it was in the late 80s. We think that it was 1988 - just four years after the Palmerston Forts Society was formed. This five minute video gives a short introduction to Fort Nelson, how and why it was built and how it would be oper...
Close Defence of Fort Nelson by the Portsdown Artillery Volunteers.
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Close Defence of Fort Nelson by the Portsdown Artillery Volunteers.
Pewley Hill Mobilisation Centre 1998
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Pewley Hill Mobilisation Centre 1998
Firing an 8 inch BL gun in Aukland, New Zealand
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Firing an 8 inch BL gun in Aukland, New Zealand
Portsdown Artillery Volunteers firing the 64-pr RML
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Portsdown Artillery Volunteers firing the 64-pr RML
Firing a 64 pr at Fort Glanville, Australia
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Firing a 64 pr at Fort Glanville, Australia
Reinstalling a 10 inch RML at Fort Glanville, Australia
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Reinstalling a 10 inch RML at Fort Glanville, Australia
Meh, it was much more fun going raving out there...
Always great drone footage.
Thanks 👍More to come !
Thanks for the video....the build is really coming along nicely!!
Recorded from the TV from an old VHS tape !
Dover young offenders a place I spent time at in 1996..not a proud moment in my life ,but it gave me a kick up the backside to do better in life.. Got out got a job and settled down with my wife and kids.. thanks for the video though. Mad seeing the place again after all these years.
Interesting, but would love a lot more and speeded up a bit.
Did they not present,aim and fire or was the rifle not accurate enough to aim?
Good question. I'll have to ask one of the rifle drill experts and see what they say.
The correct command pre 1881 was only "Present"... in this one command, the man raised the rifle, aligned the sights >and then< after three beats of quick time, pressed the trigger . After 1881, the command was broken down to two parts. "Present" saw the rifle raised and sights aligned, and "Fire" saw the man press the trigger. With the Martini, (this being a carbine version of it) the word both to initially load and then to 'reload' was "Ready"...
Was on that trip with Roger Gill, thanks for the memories!
That video was taken by the late Roger Gill when we were exploring the place. Can confirm it was the East side of the MC and was accessed through the garden of the house in the South-East corner of the site. It was the only MC where both sides of the ditch were revetted in concrete.
Thanks very much for that additional information. I have a few more of these and I'll be putting them up as and when time allows.
@@palmerstonfortssociety8884 Forgot to mention, at the very end there is a brief view of the west end of the Gorge Casemates where a heating plant was installed when the Casemates and roofed over ditch were used as archive storage. Have some digitised copies of Roger's Videos around somewhere, he took them at all the surviving MC's except Halstead IIRC.
If you would like to give us copies for our archives (and/or to be posted here) please get in touch at enquiries@palmerstonfortssociety.org.uk @@alanbates1471
I thought the guns were fitted
Yes they were. Four and then six 9 inch RMLs - but not for long.
Miss the dramatic music that you normally use
Well, opinion is divided! We usually ask for the videos to not have any music added.
RIP George Greear.
What an amazing video of Gilkicker fort finally uncovered The developers must be so proud of what they’ve achieved so far That no other developers have been able to achieve Now, it’s the good part for the developers to put their own stance on the project Can’t wait for the next video 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
promo sm
Massive admiration for the skill level of the hammer operator. Unpeeling a stone arch with a huge machine, delicate work indeed!
Absolutely incredible 🙂
This is absolutely incredible l. It's such an interesting place Thank you 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it
Progress seems to be happening quickly, wonder when they'll be on the market ?
It will be a log time. 18-24 months.
Brilliant drone footage please keep them coming Been waiting to see fort Gilkicker reveal itself after 100+ years to its former glory I would like to give credit to the developers for having the skill the knowledge and the commitment to undertake this amazing project Bring life and prosperity back to a dangerous rundown eyesore
Amazing work
Truly amazing footage. Its really impressive to see the excavation work paying off and the fort emerging from the embankments.
Thank you for sharing for those of us interested but overseas!
You are very welcome. This channel is a new thing for us and it seems to be going well. We have a few more old videos in our archives and we will be adding those to this channel over the next few weeks.
The detachment are: Ian Maine, Duncan Williams, Greg Hornsey, Graham Walters and Peter Luton (RIP). The commentary was given by David Moore (RIP). Filmed circa 2000.
you made well , Palmerston~ 🤗