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Spike Island (Irish: Inis Píc) is an island of 103 acres (42 ha) [1] in Cork Harbour, Ireland. ... The first artillery fortification on the island was built in 1779.
Spike Island is a park in Widnes, Halton, North West England. ... In 1833, Widnes Dock, the world's first rail-to-ship dock, was built on the island.
A number of coastal fortifications were built in County Cork, Ireland, to defend the county's coastline, ... Spike Island: Star fort (later prison) 18th/19th century
Spike Island was created by William Jessop in the early 19th century, when he constructed the New Cut and converted the former course of the River Avon into the Floating Harbour. Until the Second World War , a lock connected Bathurst Basin with the New Cut, and Spike Island was a genuine island surrounded on all sides by water.
Northumberland Heath has a Community Forum (a kind of Parish Council). [4]The Erith Rugby Club is based in Northumberland Heath. [5]The European SF Society (Eurocon) Award-winning webzine, the Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation [6] was founded by former locals of Northumberland Heath, some of whom have established a local SF group.
Widnes Dock with filled-in lock chamber (2007) Map of Spike Island (1875) showing the location of Widnes Dock. Widnes Dock was the first rail-to-ship facility in the world. [1] It was built in 1833 between the end of the Sankey Canal and the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway in Widnes. [2]
It Has A Fully Functioning LEGO Clock Mechanism Run By A Spike Prime Hub, That Also Includes The Chimes And Big Ben Bell Sounds Every Hour ... #20 1:1 Easter Island Head Made Of LEGO. Image ...
Spike Island has had a long and interesting history, and for more than 150 years the British flag has flown over it as one of the main defence works on the southern coast. For years Spike was a penal settlement and was continued as such down to the truce of 1921. To-day was the seventeenth anniversary of the truce.