The Blockhouse: Inside the Redoubt
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The Blockhouse: Inside the Redoubt
Image: © Tony Atkin Taken: 3 Dec 2006
This is the inside of the Mount Pleasant Redoubt, built on a high point as a gun emplacement around 1780 to defend the new dockyard. It was used until the 1860's then was abandoned until the Second World War when it was again used as a gun emplacement to fire against enemy aircraft.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.380951
Longitude
-4.168781