Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage & legacy . . .
Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - My Trip to Flat Holm - 2024 . . .
Lighthouse Barracks and Fort - The barracks and fort as originally designed was situated upon the highest part of Flat Holm. The diagram is borrowed from 'Guns Across the Severn'[1319].
Lighthouse Barracks and Fort - A colourised aerial view of the lighthouse and fog horn, with the lighthouse fort foremost. [000][002]
The Moncrief Pit - One of the pits at Lighthouse Battery and Fort showing the means of entry and exit plus access to the shell and cartridge store as indicated, below ground level, on the plan above. The pits were about 18 feet in diameter and 10 feet deep, sufficient for the Moncrief mechanism to operate effectively. [001]
