What was of interest is that the actual round house,(that was a separate building at one time) was actually built 50 years before The Magazines (not the pub!) so was not originally the watch-keepers house, but maybe a fisherman's cottage, albeit of unusual design!
I'd be very surprised if it was originally a fisherman's cottage. The shape is far too functional.
Has anyone ever noticed that if you walk up Fort Street and look down at the outer wall surrounding the Round House, very low down (almost at what is now pavement level) you can see part of a brick archway?
Has anyone ever noticed that if you walk up Fort Street and look down at the outer wall surrounding the Round House, very low down (almost at what is now pavement level) you can see part of a brick archway?
Never noticed but I will have to have a look tomorrow!
ive often wondered what this boarded up old shop used to be [i presume it was a shop?] . saw your message and thought you might know the answer ? thanks rob
ive often wondered what this boarded up old shop used to be [i presume it was a shop?] . saw your message and thought you might know the answer ? thanks rob
I remember being some sort of shop. Definitely within the last forty years. The land beside with the new houses on and the old stone wall had a hut that was a meeting place for scouts or sea scouts and there was an old wooden structure that eventually someone recognised as a gun carriage off a sailing ship. Think that was in the 1980's. It was taken away to museum or something.
