Petes-Pix: Newhaven Fort

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"Pinotage: Behind the Legends of South Africa's own wine" is available on the ibookstore

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A I Perold's
A Treatise
on Viticulture
A I Perold (1880-1941) was South Africa's first Professor of Viticulture and Oenology. He dedicated himself to improving the quality of grapes for wine, brandy and the table. He studied wine and brandy production in Europe, imported more than 60 varieties to the Cape and bred new ones. Perold said this book “is intended to serve both the student and the practical grape-grower. There are in it technical passages that will appeal more to the student, e.g. the chapters dealing with the biology of the vine, its external and internal morphology, the theory of grafting. My remarks on the practice of viticulture, such as those dealing with the propagation, manuring and pruning of the vine, the production of table grapes for export, will, it is hoped, assist the practical grape-grower as well as the student.” This is a newly typeset reprint, not a photocopy. Text on the 712 pages have been aligned to match the original pagination so any external references to pages in the Treatise will be valid in this edition
Available in paperback and hardback editions. 712 pages

A Year in Paarl
with
A I Perold

Dr Perolds report on his Paarl experiments 1915 - 1916 reprinted with glossary, introduction and brief biography. Fascinating historical document on viticulture for wine and table grapes, wine and brandy making.

19 August 2018

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.