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Radio Solent,13 Sep 2024,5 mins

Hilsea's musical gun fortress

Secret Hampshire

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When Hilsea's military defences were made in the mid-1800s it would have been hard to envision them storing bass drums instead of bombs, two centuries later. One of the historic bomb-proof gun fortress has been transformed into a music studio and café, fit for modern times. And of course our BBC reporter Bob Diggles had to go and check it out with its owner Paul Caruana.

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