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Chrisity
Chrisity
Apr 2021
11:10am, 24 Apr 2021
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I trust it's not a Norman gateway. What a weird area it is around Gosport, must go there someday.
SailorSteve
SailorSteve
Apr 2021
11:31am, 24 Apr 2021
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A lot of my local runs incorporate it and it’s associated pebble beaches and golf course. It’s pretty much ruined now but it certainly has a presence.

It was built in the 1860’s, one of a series of defence structures around The Solent known as Palmerston’s forts - or follies, because they almost bankrupted the country.

Every few years a developer attempts to convert it into “luxury apartments”, publishes some aspirational artists impressions and then goes bust. We appear to be in another hiatus at the moment so the vandals are destroying a few more bits.
SailorSteve
SailorSteve
Apr 2021
11:32am, 24 Apr 2021
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It’s = its😞
Ness
Ness
Apr 2021
12:03pm, 24 Apr 2021
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Is there a Palmerston fort near to where the Hayling ferry lands at Eastney? I vaguely remember seeing it when Mr Ness and I did some cycling in the area a while ago. Think it was visits by appointment only though.
SailorSteve
SailorSteve
Apr 2021
12:11pm, 24 Apr 2021
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You might mean ‘Horse Sand’ Fort Ness? It’s just offshore from Eastney and is a Palmerston Fort, which, along with ‘No Man’s Land’ Fort, defended the eastern entrance to The Solent.

Eastney is also the location of a disused Royal Marines barracks.
Ness
Ness
Apr 2021
1:25pm, 24 Apr 2021
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Ah. It might have been the Marines Barracks. We did go in to the Marines Museum but that’s further along if my memory serves me correctly. I think it’s been moved since my visit there too.
SailorSteve
SailorSteve
Apr 2021
7:44am, 27 Apr 2021
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Stunner today Cog
bonners
bonners
Apr 2021
7:52am, 27 Apr 2021
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Gorgeous,is it a sunset or sunrise?
McGoohan
McGoohan
Apr 2021
7:56am, 27 Apr 2021
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That is a beauty alright
Mandymoo
Mandymoo
Apr 2021
8:28am, 27 Apr 2021
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Wow

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