Fort Paull
Fort Paull is a battery on the north bank of the Humber near the village of Paull , downriver from Hull in the English county of East Riding of Yorkshire .
Batteries were built in Paull by Henry VIII and Charles I in the English Civil War during the Siege of Hull and the Napoleonic Wars . The present fort is pentagonal and was built in the years 1861–1864 according to requirements of the Royal Commission ; it is one of the ten '' Palmerston Forts '' in northern England. The original equipment, 19 64-pounder muzzle-loading cannons, was almost completely destroyed in 1894 when the foundations for three disappearance carts and two rapid-fire rifles were being built. A mining station was added in 1886 and a searchlight followed in 1907.
At the beginning of World War I , it was believed that Fort Paull was too close to Hull, so weapons were dismantled when the new forts were built at Sunk Island and Stallingborough . Between the wars the fort served as a training base and during World War II it was converted into an ammunition depot for the Russian convoys; a degaussing station has also been added.
In 1960 Fort Paull was closed by the Ministry of Defense . In 1964, a group of volunteers, the Friends of Fort Paull , took over the facility and began to restore the fort as a museum. Fort Paull has been open to the public since 2000. There is a wax museum there, showing figures that influenced the fort's long history, and an arsenal of various artillery pieces and armored vehicles. From time to time various military re-enactments take place in the fort .
The last completely preserved heavy transport aircraft of the Blackburn Beverley type is in Fort Paull .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fort Paull, East Riding . In: The Heritage Trail . Archived from the original on December 13, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 42 '48.1 " N , 0 ° 13' 46" W.