Railway line at Brean Down Fort by LynnyJ, on Flickr
Brean Down Fort by LynnyJ, on Flickr
Brean Down Fortfort by LynnyJ, on Flickr
Railway line at Brean Down Fort by LynnyJ, on Flickr
Brean Down Fort by LynnyJ, on Flickr
Brean Down Fortfort by LynnyJ, on Flickr
Smiler (24-03-2013)
How about telling us a little bit about where this is? And a bit of history of the place. Posting just photos up, does not make a report.
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nice shots but needs a bit of history/commentry to make it interesting well done for getting out
One of Palmerston’s Fort, built in the 1860s, and re-used during WW2,there are also remains of a Roman temple and and Iron age hill fort.
The end of the fort's active service came at 5 am on 6 July 1900 when the No. 3 magazine which held 3 tons
of gunpowder exploded.
An inquiry found that a gunner(not sure if I'm allowed to name him) had fired a ball cartridge down a ventilator shaft causing the explosion, after being put on a charge for returning late to barracks.
Several experimental weapons were trialled at Brean Down,but the only evidence is a short length of rail designed to launch a bouncing bomb
The earliest settlement up there is Bronze Age