And the Band Played On; History of Music from the British Royal Navy

Someone once asked me why I write posts about the navy when my blog and book were entitled Nothe Fort and Beyond.  ‘Beyond’ maybe gives a clue because the Victorian fortifications weren’t built as a stand alone defence. They were not only designed to protect our south coast from invasion but to protect the naval…

Royal Engineers and Searchlight Displays on Weymouth’s Nothe Fort; Military History in Weymouth.

Sometimes it’s odd where childhood memories pop up from. I have a few as a small child of watching searchlight displays from Weymouth beach. I am almost sure that they had been based on the Nothe and maybe over towards White Nothe? I recall watching as these powerful beams moved out across the waters of the bay and…