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Make a Model Martello Tower

Old Fred’s Grand children were learning about Martello Towers; they found that they were quite interesting and their granddad suggested that they might like to make a card model of one. 

In the early years of the nineteenth century, between 1805 and 1808, Martello Towers were built along the Kent and Sussex coastline from Folkestone to Seaford. These towers, 74 in all, were built to defend the coast from attack and imminent invasion; Napoleon posed a serious threat and was amassing an army of 150,000 men, ships and equipment at Boulogne, across the English Channel. Many of these Towers have survived to this day, several are derelict but most have been converted to other uses, including dwellings. 

Fred and his grandchildren based their model on an un-restored tower, one that had not been ‘modernised’ and that was very much as it had been for about two hundred years. If you would like to make this model, download the plans and instructions now.

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