[HN Gopher] Martello Tower
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Martello Tower
Author : benbreen
Score : 62 points
Date : 2024-01-28 01:17 UTC (21 hours ago)
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| tigerlily wrote:
| > Curiously enough, the name of the Marletto Tower shows a
| remarkable similarity with 19th-century British fortification
| named Martello tower (see wikipedia). Whether the name in Heroes
| of Might and Magic III is just a misspelling or intentional, that
| remains unknown. [1]
|
| [1] https://heroes.thelazy.net/index.php/Marletto_Tower
| Sharlin wrote:
| Yeah! Always wondered where the name "Marletto Tower" came
| from.
| jot wrote:
| The one nearest me has a fantastic museum [0] inside.
|
| A large part of it is dedicated to old tech donated by locals
| over the years. Highly recommended if you're in the area.
|
| [0]: https://seafordmuseum.co.uk/
| mttch wrote:
| I grew up around there. Definitely second the museum
| recommendation, highly eclectic.
| icosian wrote:
| A Martello tower in Howth, Dublin, has also become a technology
| museum, known as the Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. It
| was the passion project of one individual, Pat Herbert, who
| sadly passed away in 2020.
|
| https://sites.google.com/site/hurdygurdymuseum/home
| wheybags wrote:
| I grew up in Dublin, these are all over the place there. I
| particularly like the one in Loughshinny, there's a rope hanging
| out the (metres above the ground) doorway, and you can climb in
| to explore.
|
| The floor inside has collapsed, but you can shimmy around on the
| ruin of an interior wall to get to a spiral staircase, which
| brings you up to the gun platform up top. No gun left,
| unfortunately :p. There is a murder hole* though.
|
| * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_hole
| urschrei wrote:
| The one on Ireland's Eye also has a rope btw
| musiciangames wrote:
| Same for the one on Shenick Island, Skerries
| dmoo wrote:
| You can stay in the one in Sutton.
| https://www.airbnb.ie/rooms/8003265?psafe_param=1&c=.pi0.pk3...
| lawlessone wrote:
| I found a guy youtube that made a great drone video of the one
| in Dalkey.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF0VqML761U
| ChocMontePy wrote:
| I'm a James Joyce fan, but I had no idea until now that Fort
| Denison here in Sydney Harbour is a Martello tower.
| jhfdbkofdchk wrote:
| have you been to his old place in Dublin? it's interesting...
| InternetGiant wrote:
| The Joyce museum, in an old Martello tower, is defined worth a
| trip if you are in Dublin.
|
| https://joycetower.ie/
| dumpsterlid wrote:
| Ulysses is as an absolutely incredible book, the Martello tower
| in the morning with Stephen and Mulligan looking out at the
| "snotgreen sea" will forever live rent free in my head.
| mywacaday wrote:
| Some have been converted into homes, good example here
| https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2014/09/21/on-the-market-award-win...
| traeregan wrote:
| Of the ones listed, I've only been to the two in Key West, FL,
| USA.
|
| Neither of them (currently) outwardly resembles the, apparently
| common, cylindrical/cone look of most of the ones pictured in the
| wiki.
|
| The West Tower garden is beautiful. The East Tower is a museum
| and my primary memory of it is that it houses this creepy doll
| that we learned about during a Ghost tour and had to go see for
| ourselves: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/robert-doll
| GavinAnderegg wrote:
| I live near the Prince of Wales Tower (the first image in the
| article), but only today learned that it's the oldest Martello
| tower in North America! It's the first location on Bloomsday
| gatherings in Halifax.
| hnlmorg wrote:
| The Harwich one hosts a beer festival every year. It's fun
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwich_Redoubt
| kylecazar wrote:
| I went on a ship around the world in college -- started in Nova
| Scotia and ended in California.
|
| I had an opportunity to see TWO of these towers! In Halifax and
| Mauritius (in the Indian ocean).
|
| It really drove home the old quip about the sun never setting on
| the British empire. Especially having arrived by sea.
| waiquoo wrote:
| I grew up in the Fort Johnson neighborhood in Charleston, so I
| was surprised to see that it was listed as a martello. The
| magazine is definitely still there, a little brick building with
| very thick walls (especially for the size of the building). It
| looks like several forts were built and destroyed on the site
| (https://www.dnr.sc.gov/marine/mrri/ftjohnson.html) but the only
| trace I've ever seen are the earthwork battlements along the
| harbor side. The location is better known for the point (right by
| the magazine) where the first shot of the civil war was fired
| towards Fort Sumter.
| userabchn wrote:
| The one in Dalkey (south Co. Dublin) is supplemented by another
| tower on top of nearby Dalkey hill that could see ships from
| further away and signal down to the Martello tower.
| dmurray wrote:
| That one is a private residence, it was converted into a one-
| bed home.
|
| https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-...
| surfingdino wrote:
| What will be the equivalent standard defence structure found on
| the sites of former US Army bases in the future? Is there one?
| rappatic wrote:
| The opening of James Joyce's masterpiece novel _Ulysses_ [1] is
| set in a martello tower. They 're dotted all around Dublin.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)
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