Long Curtain, King's Bastion and Spur Redoubt - Portsmouth

 Long Curtains, King bastion, and spur redoubt

Date:  Feb 2022

Location: Portsmouth

Public or Abandoned: Public

Demolished:  No

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This was our last stop off for the day on our day trip out in Portsmouth - even know I had been here many times before I never thought about taking photos until now - sadly some of it is blocked off due to work getting down on the sea wall, but will go back in a later date.

sadly not much history can be found on this site - but I managed to dig up some bits

so apparently only surviving section of the ramparts and moat

the smaller section that you can not get to atm due to works going on is the spur Redout the readout was built in the 1680s 

Fort Nelson - Portsmouth

 Fort Nelson

Date: October 2021

Location:  Portsmouth

Public or Abandoned: Public

Demolished:  No

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one Sunday afternoon in October - we headed up to Portsmouth for one are family day out and head over to Fort Nelson 

once we arrived we went to the reception to get our tickets which are FREE and we only had to pay £3 for parking what I thought was good.

we were then on our the way to explore the fort - a huge amount of the fort was open to the public including tunnels and a magazine room with lots of information about how the fort was built and also how it was used through the war.

overall it was a really good family day out 

it said that fort nelson is one of  five forts that are built-in ports downhill back in the 1860s, overlooking and protecting the naval base,  Fort nelson is  a grade 1 listed fort,   Sadly in 1950's the fort came abandoned, but was brought by the Hampshire council in 1975, the site at the time had a £3/4million  pounds spent on it where it was open to the public in 1994