by Bob King | May 13, 2021 | Uncategorized, Victorian Britain
A few more fascinating documents to explore that have recently come to light. It’s the 1881 Barrack Plan for the Island surveyed and drawn up by the Royal Engineers. It was a decade after the completion of the Palmerston or Napoleonic Casemates which contained the 9...
by Bob King | May 7, 2021 | Spanish Armada
I came across two old charts dating back to at least 1600 and possibly slightly earlier of the first fortifications on the Island and the Tudor fortifications that pre-dated and were incorporated into the Royal Citadel often known as Drake’s Fort. The Queen’s Engineer...
by Bob King | Apr 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
I have been looking through a whole bunch of Island records that we have recently obtained. They are photo’s of declassified and ancient records. The earliest are from the early 17th Century so date from just after the first set of Tudor Buildings were completed by...
by Bob King | Apr 15, 2021 | Adventure Training Centre Days
This final set of memories from the Adventure Centre days is again provided by Martin Dunning and I am very grateful to have had the chance to meet Martin on the Island a few days ago along with a number of other Adventure Centre Islanders who sent in their memories...
by Bob King | Apr 1, 2021 | Adventure Training Centre Days
This week is another bunch of memories from 1979 to 1981 from Martin Dunning who was a climbing instructor at the time. Martin provided so many good stories so there’ll be more from him next week. I was 22 when I went to work on Drake’s Island in April 1979. A friend...
