THE PLYMOUTH DEFENCE SCHEME OF 1911
The Plymouth Defence Scheme was a secret military document only to be enacted on orders from the War Office – the then...
World War One Command and Control of the Guns on the Island
The surge in Artillery technology resulted in the construction of the three new Gun Batteries of three Gun...
Four More Island Births Discovered
There are now nine births on the Island we know about. Five were known about previously, George Woodhead born in 1845...
The Addition of the Centre and Eastern Artillery Batteries in 1901
The upgrading of the coastal defences continued with the building of the Centre Battery of three gun emplacements to...
1898, The First Breech Loading Battery and the Defences Tested
These next set of plans cover the period from 1898 to World War 1. The defences up to this point had all been Rifle...
The 1895 Island Defences Survey
The next set of surveys done by the Royal Engineers was in 1895 overseen by Lt Col Francis Mascall who was the...
How the Island looked in 1881 including Skittle Alley
A few more fascinating documents to explore that have recently come to light. It’s the 1881 Barrack Plan for the...
Old Charts of The First Fortifications and Drake’s Fort on the City Foreshore
I came across two old charts dating back to at least 1600 and possibly slightly earlier of the first fortifications on...
New Island Charts and Fort Logs from 1600 onwards
I have been looking through a whole bunch of Island records that we have recently obtained. They are photo’s of...
More Memories from the Adventure Centre
This final set of memories from the Adventure Centre days is again provided by Martin Dunning and I am very grateful...
More Adventure Centre Memories
This week is another bunch of memories from 1979 to 1981 from Martin Dunning who was a climbing instructor at the...
An Instructors Recollections of the 1980’s
Both Ken Corish and Martin Dunning started work on the Island in 1979 as instructors, Ken as an Assistant Marine...