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A display of historic weaponry |
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A elegant display of arrayed weaponry from medieval polearms and 2-handed swords through to 19th century percussion muskets and carbines. There are ra...
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A Parliamentarian Musketeer |
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A member of the Tower Hamlets Trayned Band showing how a Civil War musketeer would have been armed. He has a matchlock musket of the period, with a re...
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Battle of Lansdown Hill, Waller's first position |
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A view of the hill itself from the track (now a road) in the vale between Lansdown Hill and Freezing Hill where the Royalists initially formed up. The...
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Battle of Lansdown Hill, Waller's second position |
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A view south from the centre of the battlefield looking at the plateau at the top of the hill. This is where Waller and the Parliamentarians fell back...
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Cavalryman's Back and Brest of the English Civil War period |
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This English breastplate and backplate from the mid 17th century illustrates the basic protection considered necessary for a soldier of horse of this ...
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Cuirassier-style cavalry Helmets used in the English Civil War. |
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A pair of full-face close helmets worn by cuirassiers during the English Civil War. The helmets would be part of an all-over plate armour similar to t...
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English Civil War Foote |
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A pikeman and a musketeer from the 17th century.
The pikeman in this picture actually holds a halberd, which would have been particularly effective ...
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Lansdown Hill, Grenvile's Monument |
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A monument to the commander of the Cornish foot, Colonel Sir Bevile Grenvile, and the battle of Lansdown Hill (5th July 1643) positioned at the top of...
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Late 17th Century Pikeman's Armour |
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A Pikeman's back and breastplate from around 1660 of the pattern used during the English Civil War. It also shows the hinged plates which would have c...
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Marston Moor |
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The view looking south and south-west from the left of the Royalist position at the ridge where the Parliamentarians formed. The battlefield monument ...
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Marston Moor |
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The view north towards the Royalist position from 'Cromwells Plump', the highest point on the ridge where the Parliamentarian forces formed before the...
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Marston Moor - Cromwell's Plump |
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The small clump of trees at the highest point of the ridge where the Parliamentarian forces lined up before the Battle of Marston Moor. It is thought ...
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Marston Moor Battlefield Monument |
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The monument to the Battle of Marston Moor, on the Tockwith to Long Marston road.
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Naseby, Battlefield Monument |
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A commemorative monument errected on the battlefield just north of Cromwell's position on Red Hill Ridge.
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New Model Army 'Lobster Pott' Helmet of the English Civil War period |
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This three-barred pott helmet was worn by an harquebusier, a more modern type of cavalryman armoured just with a buff coat, back and breastplate and t...
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Scarborough Castle |
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The first stone castle in Scarborough was built on the headland dominating the town and harbour around 1135 by William Le Gros, Earl of Albemarle. The...
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Sir Thomas Fairfax's Tomb & Memorial |
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The tomb and memorial to Sir Thomas Fairfax, one of the most prominent and skillful commanders of Parliamentary forces during the 1st English Civil Wa...
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Tenby town walls |
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The impressive remains of Tenby's medieval city walls, which also protected the town and defied the Parliament's troops when Tenby was held for the Ki...
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The Naseby battlefield - North |
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The battlefield of Naseby (14th Jue 1642) from the centre of the battlefield looking up towards the Parliamentarian position.
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The Naseby battlefield - South |
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The Naseby battlefield. Looking fron the right of the Parliamentarian position where Cromwell formed his Ironsides over the battlefield to the ridge w...
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