Freddy Gomez
Convict Labour - The building of the Dockyard (Pt 8 of 8)
15 October, 2009 04:44 -- [Left] The Chatham Counterguard Seawall (Reclamtion Road) along with the Orange Bastion (behind this wall) were the last of the convict labour works. Note the ... Full story
Convict Labour - The building of the Dockyard (Pt 7)
08 October, 2009 07:41 -- BY FREDDIE GOMEZ [Left] Orange Bastion probably the last works carried out by convict labour. There is a marked difference in workmanship ... Full story
Convict Labour - The building of the Dockyard (Pt 6)
01 October, 2009 05:55 -- By Freddie Gomez [left] The wooden hulk H.M.S. Success was probably one of the few British ships purpose-built for the transportation of ... Full story
Convict Labour - The Building of the Dockyard (Pt 4)
18 September, 2009 08:01 -- BY FREDDIE GOMEZ [Left] Building 191. One of the few (if not the only) stone block building still left intact where convicts were kept for a ... Full story
Convict Labour - The Building of the Dockyard (Pt 3)
08 September, 2009 05:05 -- BY FREDDIE GOMEZ [Left] A confinement cell for convicts awaiting punishment :: Photo: Gibraltar, a Convict Establishment. British Archives, London By ... Full story
Convict Labour - The Building of the Dockyard (Pt 2)
03 September, 2009 06:20 -- by Freddie Gomez [Left] The 200 year old structure is indeed a superb work of craftsmanship. On the stone blockwork at the ... Full story
Convict Labour - The Building of the Dockyard (Pt 1)
27 August, 2009 02:48 -- [Left]A drawing by George Palao of the "Torre del Tuerto" with its accompanying batteries as it probably was in 1627, from his book "The Guns ... Full story
Convict Labour
20 August, 2009 05:20 -- by Freddie Gomez [Right] Building 171, an expense magazine constructed of local limestone blocks in the early 1800s and built by convicts ... Full story
Convict Labour
13 August, 2009 06:00 -- by Freddie Gomez [Left:: Early 1940s - using the same system of ropes and pulleys as in the 1700’s, a spare 9.2 barrel is ... Full story
Geology - Ground and Surface Water Supply
20 January, 2008 01:22 -- by Freddie Gomez Nuns' Well is acknowledged by consensus to be the only remaining construction for water storage in Gibraltar. There is no ... Full story
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Freddy Gomez
A self-taught polymath with a passion for geology, Freddy Gomez knows more than most about Gibraltar's rocky cliffs and stratified innards