Fort Doyle
Fort Doyle on Guernsey is another free to visit site showing Victorian defences adapted and expanded by the Germans. Visiting Fort Doyle Fort Doyle is… Read More »Fort Doyle
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Fort Grey
A visit to Fort Grey on Guernsey shows a Martello Tower and nearby fortifications built by the Germans in their WW2 occupation. Visiting Fort Grey… Read More »Fort Grey
Fort Houmet
A visit to Fort Houmet on Guernsey shows a small Victorian gun fort that had been adapted by the Germans to hold more modern weapons.… Read More »Fort Houmet
Arbeia Roman Fort
Arbeia Roman Fort is not what you expect to find while driving through a South Shields housing estate! This fantastic reconstruction brings the Roman presence… Read More »Arbeia Roman Fort
Brean Down Fort
Brean Down Fort sits on a spit of land jutting out into the Bristol Channel and is relatively deserted despite being next to a beach.… Read More »Brean Down Fort
Housesteads Roman Fort
Housesteads is an idea rather than reality, it’s just a pile of plain stones but creates the image of Roman soldiers watching over a barbarian… Read More »Housesteads Roman Fort
Fort George
Fort George, near Inverness, was built as a response to the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 and is a fantastically well kept eighteenth century fortress. Visiting… Read More »Fort George
Yedikule Fortress
The Yedikule Fortress is an Ottoman expansion of the original Byzantine Golden Gate defences. Named for the seven towers that make it up, four of… Read More »Yedikule Fortress
Rumeli Hisari Fortress
Rumeli Hisari Fortress was also named ‘throat cutter’, designed as it was to throttle Byzantine trade and reinforcements before the siege of the great city.… Read More »Rumeli Hisari Fortress
Tilbury Fort
For me, Tilbury Fort is always associated with the speech by Elizabeth I on the eve of the Spanish Armada and I was excited to… Read More »Tilbury Fort