Advertisement
🖤💜🖤💜NOTHE FORT💜🖤💜🖤👻👻👻£42 per person👻👻👻
👻👻£25 deposit option👻👻
🖤8pm-2am🖤
👻Over 18s Only
👻Refreshments provided
👻Use of our kit
👻Small paranormal teams welcome
👻All deposits and balances are non refundable and non transferable
REMAINING BALANCE DUE 1 MONTH PRIOR TO THE EVENT
HISTORY
The history of the Nothe Fort spans over 160 years, from Victorian coastal defence to Local Authority nuclear bunker and now a museum.
In 1847 work began on the Portland breakwater, two walls built onto the seabed which form a safe harbour for merchant ships and the Royal Navy. It takes 22 years to complete. Forts were designed to protect the harbour from attack and French invasion, positioned at The Verne and East Weare on Portland, the end of the Breakwater arms, and at the Nothe. By 1869
building work is complete. The Fort is initially left unarmed as there is little threat of attack or invasion.
In 1872 The fort is armed with 12 muzzle loading coastal defence guns, firing shells of up to 10-Inches in diameter. They are mounted in enclosed gun positions surrounding the Parade Ground called Casemates.
In 1892 seven of the guns are replaced with larger more powerful 12.5-inch muzzle loading guns and the fort magazines are extended.
The Nothe Fort guns are taken out of service in 1916, as by then there was little risk of an attack from the sea.
The garrison are redeployed to either the Breakwater Fort or volunteered to serve on the Western Front.
Between 1939 and 1945 Two of the three 6-Inch breach loading guns are returned to service. An anti-aircraft (AA) gun is added on a tower by the gatehouse, with four more heavy AA guns just outside the fort in what is now the carpark.
The fort is a key part of the local defences when a German invasion was feared in 1940 and later in the war protected American forces in the build-up to the D-Day Normandy landings. It is also used as an AA ammunition storage and distribution centre for South-West England.
By 1970 The military no longer needed the fort. Ownership is transferred to Weymouth and Portland Council, but the fort soon becomes derelict.
Nothe Fort Museum of Coastal Defence opens to the public in 1980 however between 1984 & 1990 the Council convert part of the underground magazine area into an emergency Civil Defence Nuclear Bunker. This is decommissioned in 1990 after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
2022 was Nothe Forts 150th anniversary. After 84 years of military use the fort has been open as a museum for 42 years, welcoming over 2,000,000 visitors.
REPORTED ACTIVITY
Will you be brave enough to walk the “ghost tunnel” by yourself? Here people have heard whistles and footsteps.
Shadow figures have been seen down the vast array of tunnels leaving a foreboding feeling of being watched.
Join us as we investigate Nothe Fort
www.paranormalpresence.co.uk
Advertisement
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Nothe Fort, Barrack Road,Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom
Tickets
