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Stone Panels…

…from the Royal Marine Barracks at Chatham

These beautifully carved panels depicting the Royal Marines Insignia and the ‘Foul Anchor’ (the badge of the Lord High Admiral), originally adorned the main gate of the Royal Marine Barracks at Chatham in Kent.*

Chatham Barracks was constructed around 1780 and underwent expansion and and alteration in two main periods: [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 10th 2015

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Eastney Barracks

Work started on Eastney on the construction of a barracks to house the Royal Marine Artillery Division in 1862. Before then the Artillery companies attached to Portsmouth Division had been stationed at Gun Wharf and Clarence Barracks in Old Portsmouth, but most of their training and equipment was at Fort Cumberland. In the move to [...]

22 Comments CherryPie on Jan 9th 2015

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The Founding of Australia and the Raising of the Union Flag

This tapestry interprets the painting by Algernon Talmarge  (1871-1939) which depicts the founding of Australia and the raising of the Union flag by Captain Arthur Philip RN at Sydney Cove, 26 January 1788.

On 13 May 1787 a convoy of six convict transports, three storeships and two warships, the “First Fleet“, sailed from Portsmouth to found [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 8th 2015