Watchtower Research Project / photo's,drawings,books etc.

[StefanM]

Above: MARTELLO TOWERS: England

Originally 103 towers were built between 1805 and 1812 to resist a potential invasion by Napoleon.

29 were built between Aldeburgh and St Osyth Stone between 1808 and 1812 to protect Essex and Suffolk, the rest having been built a few years earlier across the Kent and Sussex coasts. They were built of brick, 13 foot thick on the seaward side, stood about 30 foot high and were equipped with a cannon on the roof. A supporting fort, or Redoubt, was built at Harwich.The largest tower is Martello CC, at Aldeburgh, which is effectively four towers joined together.




Below: Knights of Malta, Gneja Bay, Malta.



The defensive tower at Gneja Bay, Malta. The Maltese islands are ringed by these lookout towers.

[Joost]

thanks 4thskorpion, didn't had these ones yet!

[StefanM]

thanks 4thskorpion, didn't had these ones yet!

Good luck with your project!

[Gary J]

There might be something here ...

The Pillbox Study Group

.. Possibly worth contacting ..

Gary J.

[StefanM]

Ustasa (Croatian fascist) guard next to a watchtower at the Jasenovac concentration camp. Yugoslavia, between 1941 and 1944



Photo:USHMM