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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]

VICTORIAN GUN EMPLACEMENTS (numbered from east to west)

No 1 & 2
64 pounder RML's

No 1 & 2
64 pounder RML's

No 1 & 2
64 pounder RML's

East Moncrief pit used
as an incinerator

East Moncrief pit used
as an incinerator

East Moncrief pit used
as an incinerator

Incinerator in east
Moncrief pit

No 3 & 4
64 pounder RML's

No 3 & 4
64 pounder RML's

West Moncrief pit

West Moncrief pit

No 5 & 6
64 pounder RML's

No 5 & 6
64 pounder RML's

No 7 & 8
64 pounder RML's

No 7 & 8
64 pounder RML's

No 9
64 pounder RML


For more pictures of Fort Southwick click here

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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