The Fort Today
Today Crownhill Fort is home to several small businesses, a holiday apartment, a wedding and events venue as well as underground tunnels, recreated Victorian and World War II barrack rooms, and a detention room. The Fort is open to the public every last Friday of every month, with tours of the grounds bookable on request at other times. Food and beverages are available at the Fort Lounge Bar and volunteers from the Devonport Field Gun Association can open their heritage centre on request.
The Fort is licensed for civil ceremonies and hosts an array of wedding receptions, private events and corporate events all year. The events are managed and run by Emotive Events Ltd (parent company of leading London wedding planners Wedding Matters).
In 2010, the Landmark Trust began an operation to remove by helicopter dozens of trees that have grown within the walls of the fort, as the fort's layout prevents the setting up of large-scale cutting and chipping machines. In 2012 there is a project taking place to reinstate several of the original Victorian drainage trenches to reduce flooding in the lower floors of the Caponiers.
Read more about this topic: Crownhill Fort
Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or today:
“The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.”
—Garrett Fort (1900–1945)
“Not too many years ago, a child’s experience was limited by how far he or she could ride a bicycle or by the physical boundaries that parents set. Today ... the real boundaries of a child’s life are set more by the number of available cable channels and videotapes, by the simulated reality of videogames, by the number of megabytes of memory in the home computer. Now kids can go anywhere, as long as they stay inside the electronic bubble.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)