The Solent forts are iconic and a key part of the unique Portsmouth and Southsea seascape and as such are always inspiring photos both by photographers and visitors. A new Flickr group has been set up specifically for the Spitbank Fort to highlight the fort in particular and has loads of photos from both the shoreline and from close up, worth a look.
View the group HERE.
Photo by Angus
Photo by Dan Bernard
We mentioned a little while ago that Spitbank Fort in the Solent was up for auction, turns out just before the auction was held a buyer came forward and offered £1,000,000, way more than the guide price and quickly accepted by the sellers. It will be interesting to see how the fort will be used in the future. For full details see the BBC article.
You probably can’t see the For Sale sign from Southsea beach but Spitbank Fort is up for auction next month, estimated to be going for anywhere between six to seven hundred thousand pounds. Spitbank Fort was built between 1861 and 1878 and was one of a series of land and sea forts built to defend against French warships during the Napoleonic wars. During World War II it was installed with anti-aircraft guns to defend nearby Portsmouth harbour against Nazi attack. Since then it has been an on-and-off music venue and restaurant. Spitbank is one of a series of forts in the Solent, No Mans Land Fort has been converted into residential accommodation while Horse Sand Fort has remained derelict for about half a century.
Find out more information about the forts here.
I’m sure lots of you have seen this before. I found it off the back of writing another article for next week. Click on the link after this sentence and take a full tilting 360 degree tour of the Spitbank Fort.
We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:
- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.
- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.
- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!
- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.
- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.
Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.
Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.
You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.
Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.
The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.
Poster: Tristan Savage
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