The museum tells the story of the Bombardment of the Hartlepools, which took place on Wednesday 16th December 1914, when the guns of the battery were engaged in ship-to-shore combat with the German navy.
The site of the Heugh Gun Battery has been a military position since the 17th century. Now the Heugh Battery Museum sits [...]
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Binchester Roman Fort
Binchester (Vinovia) was founded around 80 AD and for a time one of the largest Roman military installations in the whole of Northern Britain. About 7 hectares in size it was large enough to have accommodated a battle-group formed of several cohorts of legionary infantry and one or more units of auxiliary cavalry. Even when it was [...]
7 Comments CherryPie on Mar 9th 2022
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville
2 Comments CherryPie on Feb 13th 2022
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Durham Night & Day
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 6th 2022
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Durham Heritage Timeline
The heritage timeline is a series of granite stones stretching over 42 meters on the Market Square from St. Nicholas Church to the equestrian statue of the Marquess of Londonderry. It shows a stylised river and tree flowing through the 1,000 years of time and history, 40 stones have bronze reliefs, others engravings, and most [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Feb 2nd 2022
