Aerial view of Deal Castle looking towards the former Old Naval Hospital now redeveloped as Admiralty mews.
In 1755 George Leith becomes a contractor to the Sick and Hurt Board of the Navy and in 1780 makes plans to build a Naval Hospital on land now known as Admiralty Admiralty acquire land for a burial ground and then a Naval Hospital at Deal; after a rebuilding project and conversion of buildings including The Dead House, The Insane House and the Cook House were completed and the area occupied by 300 patients by 1814. The hospital was closed after the end of the Wars with France and The Royal Navy Coast Blockade for the Prevention of Smuggling was based in the Naval Hospital and South Barracks between 1816 - 1831. The Coast Guard and Royal Marines used the hospital until the end of the Crimean War followed by The Depot, Royal Marines in 1861, and then a Depot Band in 1890 which then became the base for the Royal Naval School of Music and then The Royal Marines School of Music until disbanded in 1997 the land was sold to United Real Estate plc and planning permission granted in 1999 with building works starting in 2000. Deal Castle is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII in Deal, Kent, between 1539 and 1540. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire and defended the strategically important Downs anchorage off the English coast. Comprising a keep with six inner and outer bastions, the moated stone castle covered acres ( ha) and had sixty-six firing positions for artillery. It cost the Crown a total of £27,092 to build the three castles of Deal, Sandown and Walmer, which lay adjacent to one another along the coast and were connected by earthwork defences.[a] The original invasion threat passed but, during the Second English Civil War of 1648–49, Deal was seized by pro-Royalist insurgents and was only retaken by Parliamentary forces after several months' fighting.
Size: 5464px × 3070px
Location: Deal Beach, Deal, Kent, UK
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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