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Photographs taken on Saturday Febuary 4th as Police escorted members of the English Defence League (EDL) as they marched holding banners aloft during a demonstration through the streets of Leicester city center. Estimates say Up to two thousand members of the EDL gathered in the centre of Leicester, personally I think it was around a thousand as an opposing demonstration by anti-fascists UAF (Unite Against fascismheld) was held nearby.
I was shooting the events as they unfolded for Getty Images.
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The Israel Defence Forces Alpinist Unit: (Yehidat Ha'Alpinistim) is a specialist mountain infantry reserve unit of the 810th Heharim Regional Brigade under the command of the Northern Command
Its role focuses on clandestine operations, cold-weather and mountain warfare, long-range penetration, medical evacuation for battlefield injuries, reconnaissance, and tracking targets, operating in the difficult terrain in the northern front, especially Mt. Hermon.
The Alpinists are proficient in many aspects of cold weather and mountain warfare, among them shooting and suddening attack while sliding on skis and custom made snowcats and defensive tactics. The unit was established in 1983.
Photos: @idfonline
Fort Carlisle (Davis), Cork Harbour, Ireland (taken from the Brittany Ferries ship 'Pont Aven', from Ringaskiddy to Roscoff! ).
August 2008
40mm Bofors L.70
Light Anti-Aircraft Gun
"Presented to the Borough of Gravesham on 18 September, 1979, on permanent loan from. The Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich to commemorate those light anti-aircraft batteries which took a vital part in the air defence of Gravesend during the Second World War."
[Plaque]
New Tavern Fort, Gravesend, Kent
New Tavern Fort is an unusually complete example of 18th century fortifications which underwent development in the 19th and 20th centuries. The fort displays a complete sequence of mounted guns representing each stage in its development, and contains a number of unusual features which have been preserved in situ. The site is known for its connection with General Charles Gordon who lived here from 1865-71 and was later killed at Khartoum. The foundations of his house still survive within the fort. The fort itself, along with Tilbury on the opposite bank of the Thames, illustrates well the strategic importance of the Thames Estuary and the methods employed to defend it over a period of 170 years. The fort is particularly well preserved, having been maintained over a number of years by the New Tavern Fort Project. In the north west corner of the fort is Milton Chantry, a 14th century building representing the chapel of a medieval hospital.
...New Tavern Fort was built as a result of the 1778 survey of the defensive requirements of the Thames. Fear of a French invasion led to the fort being built to provide cross fire with Tilbury on the other side of the river. Originally New Tavern Fort consisted of a battery on two faces forming an angle towards the river with a strip of rampart joining it to a smaller, straight battery, defended to the front by a flat-bottomed ditch containing a wooden palisade c.3m high. The fort was constructed of unrevetted earth and was designed for an armament of heavy, smooth-bore cannon firing through embrasures. The rear of the fort was originally open and unprotected but before the end of the century a brick wall, with loopholes for musketry, was added. Although the initial construction was between 1780 and c.1783, the armament of the fort was updated and increased at intervals throughout the 19th century. In the 1840s the fort was modernised to take a heavier armament, which involved the reconstruction of the older gun emplacements, but this did not alter the basic plan of the fort. A magazine designed to hold 250 barrels of powder was built close to the chantry building, and another smaller magazine, for 50 barrels, was established nearby. Other new buildings constructed at this time included a wash-house, coal store and a guardroom. Once again, in the 1860s and 1870s, the development of large guns forced improvements in the design and armament of coastal defences and so between 1868 and 1872 new brick emplacements for 10 heavy guns were constructed, with magazines below. Again, however, the plan of the fort was not altered. By the end of the 19th century muzzle-loaded guns had become obsolete, and the perceived danger from breech-loading weapons mounted on enemy warships meant that emphasis was placed on strengthening defences downstream from Gravesend, and thus New Tavern Fort lost some of its strategic importance. In 1905 concrete emplacements for two six-inch breech-loading guns were built, joined together by a walkway with a separate magazine underneath. Although the fort was garrisoned during World War I, its strategic importance continued to decline. In 1930 it was purchased by the Gravesend Corporation who laid it out as a pleasure garden for the public. During the Second World War the magazine built for the breech-loading guns was used for a time as an air raid shelter.
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Parque Ibirapuera, SP.
Gibraltar
Northern Defences
Landport Tunnel
Originally served als the main land entrance to the fortress and as part of its defensive system.
It was heavily fortified with gates, traps and gun positions to protect against attacks, espeially from the Spanish side.
Fort Nepean gun placement pill-box remains, Point Nepean National Park, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
Prior WW! & WW2 defence facility:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Nepean
More images of this site and surrounding area in this set:
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Private Lee Stephens 30, from Solihull, has been hailed a hero after leaping from his vehicle to tackle a suspected suicide bomber
Presumably German Air Defences
Port Winston at Arromanches, the Mulberry harbour a British type of temporary harbour developed in World War II to offload cargo on the beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy.
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Otago Spirit 33 Wellington Pride 12. Petone Recreation Ground. 30 August 2014. Women’s NPC - round two.