Blog
28/02/2022
Restoring the last two WWII (QF) 25 Pounder Field Guns
The 25 Pounder QF Field Gun was the major British field gun and howitzer during the Second World War. It was introduced into service just before the war started, combining both high-angle and[...]
09/02/2022
Operation Humpty Dumpty - putting the 9.2-inch gun pieces together again
Following the success of removing the several gun pieces from the Metalrok scrapyard to Brewery Crusher, the next phase of the operation involves re-assembling gun parts at the viewing platfo[...]
17/01/2022
City Under Siege Restoration
The buildings known as the Old Willis’s Magazine was built around 1704, immediately after the capture of Gibraltar making them amongst the first British military structures ever built. Two ma[...]
01/01/2022
Moving the 9.2-inch Gun pieces
The BL 9.2-inch Mk IX and Mk X guns were British breech loading 9.2-inch guns of 46.7 calibre, first entering service in 1899 as naval and coast defence guns. They had possibly the longest, m[...]