the old battery

The Old Battery sits high above the Needles on the western tip of the Island. Built to defended the nation from 1860 when a chain of defences were constructed around the Isle of Wight and the south coast to protect Portsmouth’s naval dockyards, from a perceived threat from France. They are nicknamed Palmerston’s follies after Lord Palmerston the Prime Minister at the time. The Old Battery consists of a Victorian Building housing an authentic 1940’s style tearoom and hallway which would be ideal for any 1940’s period filming or photography. There is also a room which shows what it would have been like to work as a Victorian gunner. Out side are two 12 tonne guns. A tunnel leads to the cliff edge and houses a searchlight emplacement with spectacular view over the Needles and across the water to Dorset.

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The Needles Old Battery

the old battery

the old battery

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