The Bunker
Posted by P T on 20th Jun 2022
This awesome site will have you on the edge of your seat !!
Along the top of Portsdown Hill are five Victorian Forts known as the Palmerston Forts. Fort Southwick (pronounced Suth-ik) is one of these. Up until 2002, it formed part of an Admiralty Research Establishment, and was used by the DCSA (Defence Communications Services Agency) as a communications fort for the Royal Navy. The Ministry of Defence National Asset Register of 1998 (see links for more info) listed the building as HMS Fort Southwick. All operational use of the Fort ceased in 2002, and during July 2003 it was sold by the MoD to the “Fort Southwick Company Limited”.