[Closed] Weekly photo challenge. 18.2.13 - 24.2.13 - War & Defences

royal armouries on my commute home.....easy on this.

A slight detour during a lovely commute:

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[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Newburn ]A precursor to the English Civil War.[/url]

big gunz

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/91703444@N06/8490001718/ ]19.02.13 gun 001[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/91703444@N06/ ]20ston[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/49017178@N04/8490584950/ ]65962_537412402946193_1830070565_n[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/49017178@N04/ ]Doubledunter[/url], on Flickr

This is the shot I went to take yesterday but had forgot to put the SD card back into the camera. 🙄

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WWII Pillbox Newnam, Hampshire

A 43 mile loop to get this Pill Box on the banks of the river Dee North Wales
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Oh yeah its Type FW3/23

Mid (classic) period Cold War [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Observer_Corps_Monitoring_Post ]ROC monitoring post[/url].
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WWII coastal battery at [url= http://www.brixhambattery.org/about_the_battery.html ]Battery Gardens[/url].
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Napoleonic era 'Powder Store'.
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Next week ... Trains / railway engineering?
(First thing that came into my head).

[url= http://secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/RAFDumfries ]Heathhal airfield[/url]
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/27084274@N08/8496671380/ ]P1000019[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/27084274@N08/ ]john_henry_mtb[/url], on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27084274@N08/8496671994/in/photostream/

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/27084274@N08/8496670110/ ]hanger1[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/27084274@N08/ ]john_henry_mtb[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/27084274@N08/8496670436/ ]hanger[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/27084274@N08/ ]john_henry_mtb[/url], on Flickr

Playing with camera settings 🙄

Greenham Common, pretty poor photo looks like a random peice of tarmac, but its the half way point of the original runaway and the only peice to remain:

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This is how it looked before being decomissioned:
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History:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Greenham_Common

Don't think they would be to pleased if i leant my bike against it.

Landed on salisbury plain

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/parkesiemtb/8504026622/ ]IMG-20130218-00372[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/parkesiemtb/ ]Parkesiemtb[/url], on Flickr

Only one suggestion so far, trains and railways, so that's what it is.

http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/weekly-photo-challenge-15213-3313-trains-railways

Thanks to those who have posted links about their photo. It would be good if everyone did that.

A lookout point on the Basque coast from the Spanish civil war.

Part of the Cinturon de Hierro (Belt of Iron)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilbao%27s_Iron_Ring

Newport Castle

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/82416072@N03/8504503398/ ]WP_20130224[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/82416072@N03/ ]Philip Dixon[/url], on Flickr[/img]

http://www.castlewales.com/newportg.html

One from close to home, Slaughter Hill, Haslington.This was the next meeting point after The Battle of Nantwich for The parliamentarians and the Roundheads. The stream at the bottom of the hill was said to have run red with the bllod of the dead and dying for 3 days.
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Lag Tower, Dunscore, Dumfries.
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[url= http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/65085/details/lag+tower/ ]INFO[/url]
Drumlanrig Castle.
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[url= http://www.drumlanrig.com/default.asp?Pageid=38 ]INFO[/url]

Kate riding on the earthwork remains of Kemerton camp an Iron Age hill fort on Bredon Hill .
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how about graffiti for next weeks subject .

Trains and Railways next week already a thread.

We are all going to be Roy Croppers for a week
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I know it's too late... 45. Ish miles of coastal fat biking back to studland beach. This pil box used to on top of the cliff.

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Balls, went up to castle hill above Huddersfield today, forgot to take a pic 😳

Loving the cliff jumping pill box