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Fort Southwick is one of the forts found on Portsdown Hill, which overlooks the naval base of Portsmouth in the county of Hampshire, England.
Fort Southwick was built to defend the landward approaches to the naval base on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom which reported in 1860.
It was sold by the Ministry of Defence in July 2003 to the "Fort Southwick Company Limited", who intend to convert the barrack block into luxury apartments.
It has been a Grade I Listed Building since 1987.
1940's sea defences along the coastline of Caister on Sea / Norfolk, recently exposed by the Beast from the East.
New Brighton sea defences head on. Was waiting on these very slippery rocks for the tide to expose the stones!
A type 26/FW3 pillbox sits atop the soft cliffs at Happisburgh. It knows its fate. Like everything along here, it will be consumed by the North Sea.
Pictured is a member of 34 Squadron, The Royal Air Force Regiment based at RAF Leeming, undertaking Live Firing Tactical Training at the Otterburn Training Area.
He is taking aim with a SharpShooter Rifle.
This training formed part of the Contingency Operating Training for the Joint Expeditionary Force.
With a strength of 164 personnel, including specialist engineering and support staff, the Squadron’s firepower is provided by a wide range of infantry weapons including sniper rifles, general purpose machine guns and light and medium mortars.
Fully air portable, the Squadron’s cross-country mobility is provided by a variety of off road platforms battlefield communications systems and a highly effective range of surveillance and night observation equipment which help complete 34 Squadron’s inventory to make it a flexible and powerful force capable of deploying anywhere in the world to defend British air assets or to take part in wider military action.
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Photographer: SAC Phil Dye
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This mech came to me Dec. 2019, and on uptil now (June 2020) i have done 10 to 15 robots and mechs, i will upload in the near future, for your enjoyment!
The idea behind this one, is a farmers rebuilt farmermech, for defense against alien invasion. it was meant to part of my 'Predator* series, (you can see the first parts in my stream), but due to pandemic restrictions as you know all events was cancelled, and i stopped building for baseplate displays....... bla bla bla
Here is a mech, enjoy! ;-))
Another shot of the various defences on Kilnsea beach. They are big lumps of concrete! The tide was on tne way out and I guess I arrived about 30 minutes late to catch the best of it washing around these blocks.
Seen heading northbound on the M1 motorway at Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire.
No information at all on this vehicle.
Nothing on the DVLA website appears for this registration.
It looks like Plaxton Panther body work.
I reckon its an MOD (Ministry of Defence) vehicle similar to FE14 DGF which I have photographed and is believed to be MOD.
Early morning. Mayday walk at Pitstone Hill.
Looking out across one of the ditches still clearly defining this Iron Age site. Our ancestors presence in this land can be clearly felt up here. We thought it a fitting place to go for a walk at first light on 1st May.
These cannons have rendered sterling service protecting Black Castle in Wicklow from marine invaders and stray balls from the golf club for over a century and a half.
Infrared image shot on an unconverted Olympus E-620 through a Hoya R72. Processing just involved setting the white balance to the lowest possible temperature of 2000K in Olympus master, then an all channel conversion to B+W in PSP, using the Nik Silver Efex high structure process, with a virtual green filter, followed by the usual brightening and sharpening.
I was very lucky with the weather, being able to shoot IR on an unconverted camera in late October and still use reasonably short exposures.
RUSTY METAL WINCH USED FOR LIFTING SHELLS FROM THE MAGAZINE TO THE CASEMATES AT COALHOUSE FORT A HISTORICAL DEFENCE STRUCTURE BUILT DURING THE 19th CENTURY NEAR TILBURY LONDON RIVER THAMES ESSEX ENGLAND DSC00859
Another shot from Brighton, taken the day before the workshop when a few of us met up to shoot. It was very bright and pretty windy, but this shot of the sea defences at Shoreham harbour turned out better than I thought it would. I also have a nice panoramic crop of this that will no doubt show up online one day.
Thanks to Noel Clegg for showing us this location, and to Mike Diblicek for driving us all around!