Gibraltar Tue 27th

Thursdays Child
Robin & Joanna Minchin
Tue 27 Jan 2015 21:50
This morning Harry and I finished building a Fokker triplane which is a model of the plane flown by Baron Von Richthofen. Harry painted the entire model and cut all the pieces out and stuck some of them together with help from dad. We now need to make a box to protect a rather fragile model on the boat.

Later on we went for a walk to Rosia bay and looked for a house that was where a friend of ours (John Clarke) grew up. He had sent some photographs of the house and a picture of the naval dockyards where his father was chief engineer of the dockyard as a Captain RN. I managed to find the house although it is now hidden behind a modern housing block.

The house seems similar to how it must have been, but the surroundings have changed. What must have been a beautiful view from the house is now obscured by a whole block of flats. The garage appears to have disappeared, but otherwise it looks very similar.

It must have been an interesting time to grow up out here in the sixties and very different to today. You will see I also tried to photograph the docks from a similar angle to the photo John had sent me of aircraft carriers, but a high wall made it impossible to get exactly the same view.

We then went and looked at the 100 ton gun in its emplacement on the point above the bay. It took a team of 35 to fire it at a rate of one shot every four minutes. Each shell weighed a ton so it was quite a fearsome weapon.

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