Yours in a White Wine Sauce!

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!"

Monday, 28 March 2016

Melbourne's Sea Forts that never were

Proposed but never built, based on the Channel forts off Portsmouth, UK. Would have made fascinating additions to the Victorian defensive n...

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...

Saturday, 16 January 2016

Colonial Defences of Sydney

I have recently moved back to Sydney after around 10 years of living far and wide elsewhere. I have given myself a 'bucket list' ...

Sunday, 10 January 2016

Inspiration from the Imperial Science Museum

During our return journey from the New World, my family enjoyed a few days seeing the sights of London. A bit of a world wind visit but we ...

Thursday, 7 January 2016

RML 9 inch Armstrong Fortress Guns, Fort Gellibrand, Melbourne

These 9 inch (228mm) Rifled Muzzle Loading guns are 12 ton Armstrong Fortress guns (300 pounder guns - actual weight of shot was 256lb). ...

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