Fort Cumberland sea wall, Eastney, Portsmouth, Hampshire

Looking up the sea wall from the beach at the east end of Fort Cumberland, Eastney, Portsmouth, showing the badly cracked concrete. The lower face of the wall is faced with interlocking steel piles. A barbed wire topped chain link fence stretches back from the centre of the sea wall and a large timber obstruction on the left is wrapped in barbed wire.

Object details

ID: N25631
Type: Negative
Materials: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 14 August 1944
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm