Berwick's Elizabethan Bastions

[leon21]

Just spent a week in Berwick and travelling around the Borders. I was most impressed with a visit to Berwick's Ravensdowne

Barracks and Regimental Museum, followed by a walk round the fortifications will down load photo's later.

[leon21]

Here's a few pics.

 

Pic 1. Show's Brass Bastion in the foreground with the Barracks behind the uneven ground lines on the ramparts is were the

18th century gun positions were.

Pic 2 & 3. Windmill Bastion part of the Elizabethan defences, the circular gun emplacements are still there.

 

Pic 4. Photo of a gun drill c1906.

 

I can highly recommend it's well worth a visit if you have not been.

[Greg]

I was there last month, really wanted to explore the fortifications but my wife found the place dull oppressive and boring and walking ramparts is not something she finds exciting so we did not stay long... Still is on a bucket list to sneak back and see in more detail

[leon21]

Did you manage to visit the Regimental Museum Greg while you were there. The Minden Day parade was on the week before we

arrived but managed to find a newspaper about it.

 

 

Here's some newspaper photo's of the event.

[Greg]

never managed the museum, was in town for a very short time before moving on... on the bucket list to head back down and explore there and Coldstream

[leon21]

One thing I came across in the museum that sent shivers down my spine was the Wooden Horse Punishment.

An old 18th century military punishment used on soldiers who rioted or stole food..ect, could be ordered by his

Commanding Officer to sit on a Wooden Horse ( Device ) a sharply angled device made from planks with the

sharp point of the angle upwards. The prisoner or victim was made to straddle the horse with legs either side

and place their full weight on their crotch which rested on the point of angle, their arms were then tied behind

their backs, and muskets or weights were tied to their legs for extra weight.

this punishment was chiefly used on the infantry soldiers who were not used to riding horse's

[leon21]

Here's a small selection of photo's from the museum.............enjoy.

[leon21]

And last lot.