This article is about the defensive works protecting part of Portsmouth Harbour. For the railway branch line to an Isle of Wight ferry pier, see Stokes Bay line.
East facing gun casemates at No.2 Battery Stokes Bay Lines at Gosport
The Stokes Bay Lines were part of the great Victorian fortification of Portsmouth Harbour under Lord Palmerston. In 1857 Major Jervois had proposed a complex system of moats (ditches), ramparts and batteries to close off the gap between the new fort at Fort Gomer, and the earlier fort at Fort Gilkicker, and Fort Monckton. This defensive moat was to become the ‘Stokes Bay Lines’.[1]
‘StokesBayLines’. The StokesBayLines were constructed to protect the southern approaches to Gosport from a beach landing at StokesBay. The Lines consisted...
Batteries in StokesBay, and recommended that the Eastern Battery, being superseded by the work at the western extremity of the StokesBayLines, and interfering...
weaponry facing away from Portsmouth. Fort Monckton Fort Gilkicker StokesBayLines Browndown Battery Fort Fareham Fort Gomer Fort Grange Fort Rowner Fort...
1875. The fort was incorporated into the defences of StokesBay as an adjunct to the StokesBayLines; the Royal Engineers moved into the fort in 1878 to...
The StokesBay line was a short railway branch line in Hampshire, England, near Gosport. Associated with a new pier, it was intended to give direct and...
approach to Haneda Airport in Tokyo Bay, resulting in 24 fatalities. Flight 350 was the first crash for Japan Air Lines in the 1980s. The investigation traced...
terminal; the Gosport station was also awkwardly located. A new pier at StokesBay was opened, with a branch line off the Fareham to Gosport line; this offered...
Wilde (credited as Thomas Wild) as Doctor Note: An actor who spoke multiple lines at the beginning of the episode is uncredited and currently unknown. 106...
ordering their men to plant provisions.: 135 Certain key figures such as Luke Stokes (1656) and Thomas Modyford (1664) brought substantial numbers of colonists...
extension to Royal Clarence Yard was opened in 1846, and branch lines to StokesBay (open from 1863 to 1915), and to Lee-on-the-Solent (open to passengers...
various destinations in the East Bay, while the Orange Line runs exclusively in the East Bay. The Green and Red lines do not run after 9 pm, but all stations...
financial mismanagement at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), Alan Post recommended the firing of BART's general manager. "B.R. Stokes, ex-BART general manager...
to Silvetti Simmons, G to Snellgrave Sorbanne to Steiner Stellingetti to Stokes Stone to Sukowski Sullivan, L to Sydon T Takahashi to Templeton, G Tennard...
Offices and Arena, to the lines of the steel-reinforced concrete high-rise complex on the hill above it. A number of older Hudson's Bay Company and early 1950s...
This list is for railway lines across Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which are now abandoned, closed, dismantled or disused. Within the United Kingdom...
UK headquarters in Stoke Court, Rogers Lane, Stoke Poges from 1959 to 1978 when Bayer acquired it. At the 2001 UK census, the Stoke Poges electoral ward...
John C. McGinley Dr. Phil McGraw S. Epatha Merkerson Laurie Metcalf Brian Stokes Mitchell Donald O'Connor Estelle Parsons Rosie Perez Robert Picardo Teri...
dramas. Gravelle had worked for producer Richard Stokes in an episode of the series Holby City, and for Stokes and writer Chris Chibnall in "End of Days",...
states and was a write-in candidate in some other states, some with Trenton Stokes of Arkansas for vice president, and on other state ballots with Floyd Parker...
(Dudley Stokes and Michael White) also competed in the two-man sled competition, completing all four runs and finishing in 30th place; Stokes and White...
sexual orientation. Alice chose Stokes to run for a relatively unimportant seat on the community college board. Though Stokes received 45,000 votes, he was...
Ordnance, which argued that the site, just outside a main gate in the Gosport Lines ramparts, could compromise the Portsmouth Harbour defences. The buildings...
The BART Police (BARTPD), officially the Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department, is the transit police agency of the BART rail system in the U.S. state...
financial mismanagement at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), Alan Post recommended the firing of BART's general manager. "B.R. Stokes, ex-BART general manager...
continued as executive producers of the programme in series two, with Richard Stokes returning as producer. Chibnall also acted as lead writer. ITV executive...
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