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Glimmingehus fortified house, Scania, Sweden; started 1499 for firearms use, the similarity to Scottish tower houses is marked.
(Svein Wiiger Olsen)
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Dr. Gordon Barclay, MA, PhD, MIFA, FSA, FSA Scot., Editor FORT 2006.(Alistair Graham Kerr)
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Charles VI Gate, ravelin between St. Joseph's & St. Innocent's bastions. Petrovaradin (Peterwardein) Fortress (C18th.) on the Danube in Serbia.(Courtesy of Elias Hatzakos, from his gallery on www.pbase.com )
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Happily, for FORT 34 2006 we welcome a new Editor; see Chairman's Message.
Sadly, though, we have lost some long established members; their obituaries are in this issue.
Recent Casemates have been rather C19th/20th orientated; can we have some earlier material please, to balance things out a bit.
I am pleased to record that Svein Wiiger Olsen has sent in the first contribution for our Members' Gallery slot. Lets have some more.
Please Note:
When submitting material via email, CD or floppy, please always send illustrations as separate attachments, preferably in Jpeg format, never in the text.
This is your magazine, so response to, and comment on, the contents, style and presentation are always welcome. Charles Blackwood, Editor.
Chairman: David Bassett, 11 Fordwell, Llandaff Village,Cardiff CF5 2EU. Email: dave.bassett@ons.gov.uk
Secretary: W H Clements, 6 Lanark Place, London, W9 lBS.
Treasurer: T H Bell, 12 Castle Close, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE3O 3EP.
Editor of FORT: Dr. Gordon Barclay MA, PhD, MIFA, FSA, FSA Scot., 5 Derby Street, Edinburgh, EH6 4SQ. Email: gordon@barclaygoring.fsnet.co.uk
Editor of Casemate: Charles Blackwood, Braemont, Cilcain Road, Pantymwyn, Mold, CH7 5NJ. Tel: 01352 741556, Email: charles@braemont.freeserve.co.uk
Librarian and Reviews Editor: G Dowdall-Brown, 1 Pelican Lane, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 1NU. Email: dbrupert1@btopenworld.com
Webmaster: Richard Clisby, email: richard.clisby@btopenworld.com
Our Website address is www.fsgfort.com Please send contributions to, and questions on, the website direct to Richard.
FORT 33, which will be the last of our specialist editions covering the Second World War, is currently being printed and should be with you about the same time as this edition of Casemate.
Dr Gordon Barclay MA, PhD, MIFA, FSA, FSA Scot. has very kindly agreed to be Editor of FORT.
Both of Gordon's degrees are from Edinburgh University. He has in recent years moved on from his first interest, the Neolithic and Bronze Age of eastern Britain, and is working on 1940 anti-tank stop lines in Scotland. A paper on the 'Cowie Line' will appear in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland this summer and he is working on a survey and documentary study of the 'Command Line' in Fife and Perthshire. Gordon was editor of Proceedings, Scotland's main archaeological journal, for three years to November 2004. He was Head of Scheduling in the Historic Scotland Inspectorate until January, when he moved to be Head of National Policy.
He attended the FSG committee meeting this March and has already started work on FORT matters. We wish Gordon well and very much appreciate his enthusiasm and the expertise he is bringing to this role. We all need to support him as Editor and the best way we can assist is to contribute articles and encourage all who have suitable material to provide articles for inclusion in FORT - or Casemate.
On a sadder note I regret to report that Alan Pearsall died on Friday 30th March. Alan served on the FSG committee for 20 years - in recent years as FSG representative on the International Fortress Council. He brought to the FSG his encyclopaedic knowledge of the maritime and industrial elements of fort design, context, operations and remains; and frequently brought his wide ranging, academic and lateral perspective to discussions and articles on forts. Alan was the Curator of Manuscripts and Head of the historical section at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, where his funeral was held in the chapel on 27 April. Alan's wit and knowledge will be sadly missed.
2006. Sep 1-4: Weymouth (Alistair Graham Kerr)
2007. Orkney & Shetland (Doreen Grove)
2007. April: Eastern Germany, start at Berlin(Hans-Rudolf Neumann; hrv.neumann@t-online.de
2008. Slovenia (Aleksander Jankovic Potocnik)
27 Aug-14 Sep: China/Vladivostok; Tour; Hans-Rudolf Neumann; hrv.neumann@t-online.de
Sep 27-Oct 2: San Francisco; Ann. Conf; CDSG; John Martini; jamartini@earthlink.net
Oct: Les Invlaides, Paris; Ann Meeting; IFC; Carlos Scheltema; carlos@scheltema.org
Oct 8-9: Chateaux, France; Congress; IFF; Regis Berger; fort@villey-le-sec.com
(Thanks to Terry McGovern for list. Ed.)
FSG Annual Conference, Weymouth.
There are still places available for what should be a terrific Conference, based at the Allenby Barracks, as guests of The Royal Corps and Armour Centre Officers Mess, Bovington, home of the famous Tank Museum; Alistair is looking for an attendance of 100.
There is a very promising series of lectures, and a most interesting and varied programme of visits, from castle to concrete, tanks, turrets, forts and batteries.
Contact Alistair at 19, Hungate Lane, Beccles, Suffolk NR34 9TN.
