1st Orkney RGA Volunteer Officers & Sergeants, circa 1902                
East Gate, Fort Nelson                
Isle of Wight Artillery Malitia at Carisbrooke Castle                 
6inch BL HP, Fort Taiaroa, Dunedin, New Zealand                
PAV operate the 8-inch shell gun at Pendennis Castle, Falmouth                
7 inch RBL on reproduction Moncrieff carriage, Crownhill Fort, Plymouth                
Gloucester Artillery Volunteers, circa 1860                
Spitbank Fort, Portsmouth, circa 1888                
Portsdown Artillery Volunteers and 32 pr SBBL, Fort Nelson                
Antrim Artillery Volunteers at Carrickfergus Castle, Ulster                

Meetings / Events

23/05/2012 - What The Papers Said: Fort Nelson - 1860 to 1900
A talk by Phil Magrath, Royal Armouries, Fort Nelson
 
27/06/2012 - Fort St. Elmo, Malta
A presentation by John Cartwright
 
25/07/2012 - The Diving Museum, No 2 Battery Stokes Bay
PFS Outside Visit to the Diving Museum located at No 2 Battery, Stokes Bay
 

News

On Friday 27th April a few PFS members were privileged to be invited out to Spitbank Fort by the owners Clarenco to see the results of their labours over the last two years of converting the Fort into a five star private hotel.
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PFS member Colm Doyle tells us that Fort Camden, Cork, featured in an RTE 1 programme 'dirty old town'. The program shows what can happen if local residents get together to tidy up or restore a run down part of their town. ...> read more
 
 
Society Published Articles - The Redan
 
The Palmerston Forts Society provides its members with an annual journal "The Redan". The articles within the Redan are the results of individual members' research and cover all manner of subjects. The Redan has been published since 1986 and as a result it is a rich source of information for PFS members on all matters relating to Victorian Fortifications.
 
Below are a few samples of Redan articles taken from the back issues of the Redan which give a taste of the diverse nature of the articles published:
 
 
To help members look-up research articles from past issues of the Redan, the following document is a complete index from 1986 to 2011. 
 
All the past issues of the Redan are available for members to view/download within the members area of the web site which can be entered by keying in a user name and password into the input fields in the top right of the page.
 
 
 
Fort Log
 
Fort Log is a series of two page documents designed to give the reader the key points and summarised information about each Victorian Fort & Battery within Great Britain. Like theRedan articles, the Fort Logs are the result of individual member's researchand have been accumulated since their inception since 1993.
 

To date 208 individual Fort Logs are available to the members covering Forts and Batteries from Orkney to St Ives, in Cornwall, and many places in-between. They are included within the index document above.

 
A Sample Fort Logs are given below:
 
Pendennis Castle -                                  Liscard Battery -
 
Fort Log like the Redan is a rich source of information about the Victorian Forts and Batteries of Great Britain, and the format given enables them to be used as field guides. All 208 Fort Logs are available in the members section of the web-site to be downloaded together with some useful maps to help identify the location of each site.