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IRON HEART World Tour II 2011-2012 - Beatle Buster SBG

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  • B
    Beatle
    Joined: 8 Dec 2009

    Dear Madame B.

    I hope you remember us talking about ironing and what not to iron.

    It obviously slipped my mind that you would be bonkers enough to even consider ruining a perfectly fine T shirt.

    Please skype me next time, you need to have some input in that field of chores.

    Not so big hug

    Beats

    We can do anything

    http://bybeatle.com

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      Giles
      IHUK Crew
      Joined: 22 Sept 2009

      @elclintor:

      i think it looks kinda cool G… almost like it's part of the design...

      That's what she keeps saying…................

      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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      • J
        jimmy
        Joined: 17 Dec 2010

        @Giles:

        @elclintor:

        i think it looks kinda cool G… almost like it's part of the design...

        That's what she keeps saying…................

        Hahaha…...

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        • G
          Giles
          IHUK Crew
          Joined: 22 Sept 2009

          We do appear to be getting a little colour loss - either that or they're filthy

          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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          • B
            Beatle
            Joined: 8 Dec 2009

            so good

            We can do anything

            http://bybeatle.com

            last edited by 30 May 2011, 09:54 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • N
              nameness
              Joined: 6 May 2010

              knowing you..

              @Giles:

              they're filthy

              😮

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              • G
                Giles
                IHUK Crew
                Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                Gosport

                Gosport is a military town.  Effectively it grew up to support the Naval town of Portsmouth which is about ½ a mile away across the water. So we have a lot of interesting military architecture in the town.

                These form one side of a square called Cooperage Green, they were built in the early 18th century to make all the barrels that the Navy in Portsmouth needed for meat, beer, water, gunpowder etc

                Just about everywhere you walk in Gosport you will see these or very similar, railings put up in the mid 18th Centrury to keep people out of the military installations

                This is the railway line that Queen Victoria had built between the Gosport railway station and her own private station on the sea front.  It was from here that she caught the Royal Yacht to take he over to her house (Osbourne House) on the Isle of Wight.  Towards the back of the photo, you may just be able to make out a tunnel, she was given permission to put a tunnel through the town walls which came in rather handy later on.  She died on the Isle of Wight and when they bought her body back, it spent the night in this tunnel as it was easily defended at both ends.

                One of the many gates into the military yards

                This was the HQ of the Royal Engineers, whose job was to build and defend the towns walls from attack

                And this is where the Officers lived.  Creatively called “The Officer’s Quarters”

                We have all the dangerous stuff over our side of the harbour.  This is on the basis that if it explodes, it does not take the Navy out with it.  These tanks are full of aviation fuel for our aircraft carriers.  The fuel lines now go down to the sea front under Queen Vics railway, from there, small tankers take the fuel over to Portsmouth where it is transferred onto the warships

                One of the literally 100’s of pubs that Gosport used to have, this like dozens of others is now shut down and falling into disrepair

                This is “The Pump House”, underneath the building is a well that was sunk in the late 18th century to supply the Naval brewery with water to make the beer.  We have the other well in our garden.  I’ll take pics of that at some other point

                "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                • S
                  Seul
                  Joined: 24 Nov 2009

                  Nice pics!..

                  last edited by 31 May 2011, 07:11 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • I
                    injunjack
                    見習いボス
                    Joined: 19 Feb 2010

                    nice history review, thanks

                    last edited by 31 May 2011, 07:15 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • I
                      IsaakM
                      Joined: 24 May 2011

                      Neat!
                      Any old machine shops?

                      Either way- a future regret

                      last edited by 31 May 2011, 07:16 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • F
                        Finn666
                        Joined: 20 Jan 2011

                        nice one there G….great update!

                        last edited by 31 May 2011, 07:33 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                        • G
                          Giles
                          IHUK Crew
                          Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                          @IsaakM:

                          Neat!
                          Any old machine shops?

                          As in?

                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                            IsaakM
                            Joined: 24 May 2011

                            thought naval/shipyard areas usually have lots of machinist type work going on in surrounding areas.

                            Either way- a future regret

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                              Giles
                              IHUK Crew
                              Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                              Oh, yes there are quite a few of those.  Sorry for being dim…..........

                              "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                              • R
                                rocket
                                Joined: 6 Jan 2011

                                very nice Giles

                                rocketrocksrox 🤙🏼🤙🏾

                                It's all humbug, like everywhere
                                R.I.P. Geo

                                last edited by 31 May 2011, 08:14 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                                  Giles
                                  IHUK Crew
                                  Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                  A few aerial shots to help you get your brains round the geograhy

                                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                  • B
                                    Beatle
                                    Joined: 8 Dec 2009

                                    very cool …the Castle looks pretty even from the sky

                                    We can do anything

                                    http://bybeatle.com

                                    last edited by 31 May 2011, 13:44 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                                      Giles
                                      IHUK Crew
                                      Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                      This is the well in our garden.  It was built in about 1786 by an engineer called John Smeaton (he built the first Eddystone lighthouse), so he was an engineer of some repute.  He had been called in by the Navy to sort out a way of improving the beer that was supplied to the Navy based at Portsmouth.  At the time, we had 3 major Naval dockyards in England and the beer supplied to the Portsmouth ships was going bad, much qicker than from the other 2 dockyards (Chatham and Plymouth).  The well is 50 feet deep from ground level to the bottom, with the surface of the water being about 12 feet below ground level, the diamater of the thing is about 8 feet with a ledge (that is what the ladder is standing on in the pics) about 3 feet below the surface of the water.  When the brewery was going at full tilt, they could use all the water from the wll in one day - that is a shit load of beer.

                                      From the ledge

                                      One of my mad friends diving the well

                                      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                      • C
                                        Chris
                                        Raw and Unwashed
                                        Joined: 28 Jun 2010

                                        @Giles:

                                        A few aerial shots to help you get your brains round the geography

                                        So there's a house virtually identical to yours right next door?

                                        Great stuff, by the way.  More history lessons, please.

                                        last edited by 31 May 2011, 14:02 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                        • F
                                          Finn666
                                          Joined: 20 Jan 2011

                                          ^that`s only ONE big house…one part for Giles and Paula and the other is just for IH... 😃

                                          jk 😉

                                          last edited by 31 May 2011, 14:06 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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