Fort Nelson, Portsmouth Hampshire

[Rrickoshae]

school holidays will soon be upon us and an excuse for a visit to the New Forest area would be Fort Nelson. Not only does it have fine collection of guns (eat your heart out Rnix) or a stunning location high up on the bluffs above Portsmouth but the Royal Naval Ordnance museum (Explosion!) is only a 20 minute drive away, the Historic dockyard (HMSs Victory & Warrior) 10 minutes away , the Submarine museum 20 minutes away and it is free! You can always send her indoors to do a bit of shopping in Gunwharf Quays or to the top of Portsmouth Spinnacker Tower by the long route (the stairs)

Dave

 

[Weasel]

Thanks Dave,
That has changed quite a bit since my last visit, I was up that way a few weeks ago but only had time to visit one place so Explosion it was. Had a really good day there just ran out of time. Picked up a selection of the baklite plugs that were on sale, some WW1 dated the rest later.
Thanks for posting the pictures,
Best regards Weasel.

 

[ben2000]

Fort Nelson is just up the hill from me. I agree it is a great museum to visit. I will hopefully be helping as part of the gun crew firing the Armstrong 7inch RBL gun on Sunday 27th July - well worth coming for a visit that day! I'd also be happy to meet fellow bocn members at the fort and help show them around most weekends if I'm not busy.