The Palmerston Forts Society

The Palmerston Forts Society is an educational charity dedicated to the study and preservation of Victorian foritification and associated artillery, in the United Kingdom and worldwide. The Society was formed in 1984 by a group of people enthusiastic about the Victorian fortifications of Portsmouth - which include of course, the Forts on Portsdown Hill, Portsmouth. These, together with the forts surrounding Plymouth, Pembroke, Portland, Dover, Chatham, Medway, and other lesser fortresses, were built on the recommendation of a Royal Commission which reported in 1860. Its findings were supported whole-heartedly by the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, whose name quickly became associated with the Forts and gives us the name for our Society. The Society is based at Fort Nelson on Portsdown Hill, near Fareham in Hampshire, which is also the home of the Royal Armouries museum of artillery.

 

Activities, Meetings and Events

Social events will be another attraction for members.The Society acts as a forum for research on the Victorian Fortifications of the Portsmouth and Solent area and the U.K. A journal is published each year.

 

The Society arranges working parties and educational programmes of lectures, talks and visits to forts. We meet at Fort Nelson 7:30p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of each month, except August and December.

 

Portsdown Artillery Volunteers

The uniformed section of the Society is the Portsdown Artillery Volunteers. They regularly perform authentic Victorian gun drills on some of the guns at Fort Nelson and other forts. If YOU are interested in this fascinating subject, you may like to become a member of the Palmerston Forts Society and thus help to bring life back to Fort Nelson and the other Victorian forts of Portsmouth and the U.K.

 

 

 

 

 

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