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Adventures in Victorian Science Fiction & Steampunk with ramblings about Aeronefs, Dirigibles, Land Ironclads, Anarchists, Dinosaur Hunting, Terranefs, Aquanefs, Mad Scientists, electric contraptions and steam conveyances. It may not make sense, but there will be claret and a nice cheese board at the end. Tally-Ho and "Vôtre dans une sauce au vin blanc!"

Showing posts with label Sydney Defences. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Sydney Defences. Show all posts

Friday, 2 May 2025

Ben Buckler Disappearing Gun Emplacement, Sydney

Earlier fortifications focused on inner harbour defences, but technology had rapidly progressed in the intervening years to require Sydney...

Wednesday, 2 April 2025

Fort Denison, Sydney

Situated in the central approaches to the harbour, this natural island could not be more ideally situated to defend Sydney Cove. Originally...

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Bare Island Fort, Sydney

Bare Fort was part of the secondary defences of Sydney, not in the main harbour area but guarding the entrance to the industrial Port Botany...

Thursday, 21 March 2019

Beehive Casemate, Middle Head, Sydney

Beehive Casemate is a Colonial era fortification at Obelisk Bay, a small inslet within Sydney Harbour. Construction was part of the wider ...

Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Fort Philip

The hexagonal Fort Phillip on Windmill Hill c1891-1921 (NSW State Library) Standing high on Windmill Hill above The Rocks, Fort Phillip ...

Sunday, 17 January 2016

Dawes Battery, Sydney Cove

A Man and his 42 pdr RML Dawes Point (now under the southern pylon of the famous Sydney Harbour Bridge) was the site of the fi...

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