Eastbourne, Hastings, and Brighton

Rolls Royce. Image Date: 02/07/2014

Rolls Royce With Chauffeur - This car can be hired for a 20 minute guided tour around Eastbourne. Image Date: 02/07/2014

Eastbourne Pier. Image Date: 02/07/2014

Eastbourne Bandstand - Open air theatre on the promenade, the wish tower visible on the hill in the background. Image Date: 02/07/2014

All at Sea - I took this picture at 09:19 only because I spotted a small sail boat - just visible on the horizon, roughly centre of picture. Image Date: 07/07/2014

Looking Towards Beachy Head - Looking along the promenade towards Beachy Head, every one of the benches has a memorial plaque on it. Image Date: 07/07/2014

Beachy Head - I took this picture on the morning of my last day at Eastbourne, if I had had more time I would have walked closer to the cliffs. Image Date: 07/07/2014

Looking East - Eastbourne Pier is behind me, the outcrop in the middle of the picture is Dungeness. Image Date: 02/07/2014

Eastbourne Pier - This picture was taken on the Sunday morning, overnight rain and a cloudy damp start as I walked towards Sovereign Harbour. Image Date: 06/07/2014

The Redoubt 68 Pound Cannon - A notice board close to this cannon reads:

In 2014 The Heritage Service will be fundraising to mount one of our Victorian cannons in this space on a new oak carriage of the type used in the Redoubt around 150 years ago.

The magnificent barrel lies on the grass slope just in front of you.

It is a classic 68 pounder (it would fire a 68lb or 38.74kg spell) designed by Colonel Charles Dundas in 1846 and then mass produced. This big gun was manufactured by the Low Moor Ironworks near Bradford, Yorkshire in 1858 at a time when the Redoubt was being rearmed in response to the escalating war with Russia in the Crimea.

It is likely that this cannon was one of the 'two smooth bore muzzle loading 68 Pounder Cannon' mentioned in the War Office inventory of the Redoubt in 1887.

However this gun has not always been here. At some point it was moved to the nearby Wish Tower, a fortification contemporary with the Redoubt, beyond the Pier to the west.

By 1959, it was mounted in the moat there surrounded by a flower garden. In 1970 it was lifted to the roof of the Tower by the Royal Engineers, but 20 years later was removed again as it was not of the type the Tower would have been armed with. Therefore in 1990 the cannon was back at the Redoubt once more, but left stranded and carriage less on the Glacis slope.

We want to rectify this situation and in order to do so we need to raise £6000. If you would like to help by donating some money to this project, please ask the staff at the Redoubt Welcome Desk for details. Image Date: 06/07/2014

Update: Since this photograph was taken the task of mounting it on an oak carriage has now been completed.