Southsea Castle — Where Henry the Eighth watched the Mary Rose sink in the Solent. I was out in the Solent the first day they tried to raise the Mary Rose, on a friend’s yacht. I have some pictures of it somewhere.

At one time I was active in the local museum society, and helped in a very, very, small way with some of the preservation work — I helped plumb in a hydrogen furnace. It was fascinating as the place was full of arrows from the wreck that were being preserved.

I was told that the hydrogen furnace was used in the preservation of the cannons.

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