Peacehaven

We stopped at Peacehaven on way home from Newhaven and walked along the cliff top path before descending to walk the path under the cliffs as far as we could.

Peacehaven is the southen most point of the Prime Meridian, which is marked by a monument on the cliff top  and coloured bricks along its line.

Standing astride the Prime Meridian

Newhaven Fort

To Newhaven to visit its Fort. This was a 25 minute walk from the Premier Inn hotel. Sunday was chilly and drizzly but there was plenty of exhibits inside the fort and tunnels to walk down. We spent all day there.
 

Entrance

The Fort was designed and built by twenty two year old Lieutenant John Charles Ardagh of the Royal Engineers,  started in 1862 and took ten years and six million bricks to complete. 

Ardagh bucked convention by making the first mass use of concrete in a military fortification, he designed a new type of counterweighted drawbridge that completely covered the entrance  (and was then adopted elsewhere includingthe Eastbourne Redoubt)  and the built into the contours of the land, rather than flattening the ground to building on top. 

WWII Gun Emplacement

This narrow tunnel was used to service lamps set into the wall on the left which shone through windows into the powder stores.
 

Dieppe Ferry enters Newhaven seen from Fort ramparts

Newhaven from the Fort

Leighton Buzzard Railway

To Leighton Buzzard for a trip on the narrow gauage railway, organised by Probus.

Our train was pulled by Engine Doll.

We went to Stonehenge Works where there was a larg display of rail memorabilia.

On the return the engine has uncoupled to be moved back to the fronto of the train.

Dan and Krisie

Dan and Krisie stayed Thursday and Friday night and left Saturday dressed (above) to attend a friends wedding in Berkhampstead.

Thursday night we dined at King William IV and Friday at The Cock.

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