Artillery Collection

Calshot Castle K860165
CALSHOT CASTLE, Hampshire. Aerial view. This is one of the Henry VIII device forts on the Solent, protecting the mouth of Southampton Water

Pendennis Castle K021944
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Falmouth, Cornwall. View of the Keep & Governors block from north east with mounted gun in the foreground

Woolpack Battery c. 1740s IC171_009
Reconstruction illustration showing the Woolpack Battery, part of the impressive coastal defences of Garrison Walls on St

Hurst Castle N120049
HURST CASTLE, Hampshire. Interior of casement with massive 38 ton gun and equipment

Calshot Castle J860256
CALSHOT CASTLE, Hampshire. The keep lit up at night. This is one of the Henry VIII device forts on the Solent, protecting the mouth of Southampton Water

Portland Castle K981928
PORTLAND CASTLE, Dorset. View of the castle and gun platform from the east

Blyth blockhouse DP087767
Former military structure, Links Road, Blyth, Northumberland. Concrete blockhouse and observation post at the harbour entrance

Bembridge Fort 29199_013
Bembridge Fort, Isle of Wight. A late 19th century hexagonal fort and barracks now partly converted to offices. Photographed from the air in 2014

Fort Perch Rock 33151_014
Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton, Wallasey, Merseyside. Fortress first built in the 1820s to defend the Port of Liverpool. Photographed in May 2017

Coastal battery IC266_003
Reconstruction drawing showing the layout of a typical Second World War emergency coastal battery comprising two 6-inch naval guns in gun-houses

Martello Tower 29926_037
Martello Tower 28, Rye, East Sussex. Originally built in 1805-6, this tower provided one of a pair of gun platforms to defend the approach to Rye Harbour

Camber Castle 29926_023
Camber Castle, Rye, East Sussex. Device fort built during the reign of Henry VIII to protect the port of Rye, the harbour at Winchelsea and the Camber anchorage

Bofors gun, Pendennis Castle c. 1943 N900004
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. Reconstruction drawing of Bofors gun position - Half Moon Battery c.1943 by Ivan Lapper

World War Two anti-aircraft gun K980562
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. WW2 anti-aircraft gun against grey sky

Walmer Castle J860340
WALMER CASTLE, Kent. View of cannons on the gun deck

Ancient cannon DP149271
Dartmouth Castle, Dartmouth, Devon. Gun Tower, round tower, basement. Showing breech loading cannon lined up with an embrasure

Camber Castle 29926_029
Camber Castle, Rye, East Sussex. Device fort built during the reign of Henry VIII to protect the port of Rye, the harbour at Winchelsea and the Camber anchorage

Camber Castle 29926_019
Camber Castle, Rye, East Sussex. Device fort built during the reign of Henry VIII to protect the port of Rye, the harbour at Winchelsea and the Camber anchorage

Gun Deck, Pendennis Castle N900017
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Falmouth, Cornwall. The upper gun deck in action in the late 1540s. England was at war with France from 1542-6 and again in 1549

Gun battery at Pendennis Castle N080669
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. View over the One Gun Battery towards St Mawes Castle

Gun at Pendennis Castle N080441
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. View across the water at sunset, looking towards St Mawes Castle

Tilbury Fort gun N071539
TILBURY FORT, Essex. View of wall mounted gun in a concrete emplacement

Calshot Castle engraving N070778
CALSHOT CASTLE, Hampshire. South view of Calshot Castle in Hampshire by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck (1739). This is one of the Henry VIII device forts on the Solent

Calshot Castle K950208
CALSHOT CASTLE, Hampshire. Courtyard guns. This is one of the Henry VIII device forts on the Solent, protecting the mouth of Southampton Water

Calshot Castle K950201
CALSHOT CASTLE, Hampshire. Keep and gun embrasure. This is one of the Henry VIII device forts on the Solent, protecting the mouth of Southampton Water

Gun crew, Pendennis Castle J980120
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Falmouth, Cornwall. Reconstruction drawing by Ivan Lapper of the 6-inch disappearing gun in One Gun Battery as it may have appeared in about 1900

Anti-aircraft gun, Dover Castle N060651
DOVER CASTLE, Kent. Anti-aircraft gun with St Marys Church in the background

Portland Castle N040032
PORTLAND CASTLE, Dorset. Cannons on the gun platform

St Mawes Castle K021933
ST MAWES CASTLE, Cornwall. View of the castle from lower gun battery with traversing gun in the foreground

Gun crew IC123_004
Reconstruction drawing, by Ivan Lapper, depicting four stages of loading and firing heavy guns in the Dartmouth Point Battery casemates at Dartmouth Castle in the late nineteenth century

Pendennis Castle N900027
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. c.1911. Reconstruction of Half Moon Battery. Loading a 6-inch breech gun. Reconstruction drawing by Ivan LAPPER

Pendennis Castle N900026
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. c.1911. Reconstruction drawing by Ivan LAPPER of Half Moon Battery. Transfer of shells to No. 2 gun

Pendennis Castle N900025
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. c.1911. Reconstruction of Half Moon Battery. Shell store below No. 2 gun. Reconstruction drawing by Ivan LAPPER

Pendennis Castle N900021
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. c.1894. Reconstruction drawing of operating gun by Ivan LAPPER

Gun control room at Pendennis Castle N080671
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. Interior view of World War Two gun control room. This instrument helped translate a ships position into coordinates for the gunners

Portland Castle K981914
PORTLAND CASTLE, Dorset. The Gun Platform. Detail of the pile of cannon balls

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