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Site Name: Fort Southwick

James Callaghan Drive
Portsmouth, Hampshire
OS Grid Ref: SU628069

Sub Brit site visit 3rd December 2002

[Source: Nick Catford]


Lower corridor
in the barrack block

Sign in barrack block

Gorge at the rear of the
barrack block



Looking south from the
barrack block roof


THE PARADE GROUND, DRY DITCH & CHEMIN DE RONDE

Looking north across
parade ground from
barrack block roof

Looking north across
parade ground from
barrack block roof

Ramp from the parade
ground to the east
entrance

Secondary senior
officers' mess

Top of the spiral
staircase from
magazine and caponiers

Looking along the ramparts from
secondary officers'
mess

Looking along the
ramparts from behind
the 1974 commcen

View from NW salient
over NW mortar
battery

Dry ditch, firing step
& Chemin de Ronde

Firing step and
Chemin de Ronde

Firing step, Chemin
de Ronde and
flanking gallery

Musketry gallery
defending western
branch of the ditch


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Return to Fort Southwick home page .................................
Gallery 1 Entrance to the fort and the barrack block ...........
Gallery 2 The parade ground, dry ditch & Chemin de Ronde
Gallery 3 Victorian gun emplacements .................................
Gallery 4 Victorian tunnels, magazines and caponiers ..........
Gallery 5 Underground Combined Headquarters ................
Gallery 6 Underground Combined Headquarters ................
Paulsgrove Quarry - Underground radio station..................
1974 NATO Commcen ...................................... ..............

[Source: Nick Catford

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