Fort Perch & River Mersey.

Built at the time of the Napoleonic Wars to defend the River Mersey. Fort Perch battery housed 100 men and sixteen 32 pounders which faced the Black Rock Channel. The channel being the only way up the Mersey at the time some 900 yards away and well within range of the battery's 32 pounders

Gallery additions

I will be adding more galleries as I work through the images I have including some stuff from my North Sea days.

North Sea

item2Crane barge Heerema Balder with Ninian Central in background. The flare producing an infant pyrocumulus. circa 1979.