Don't Take your Guns to Town

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A friend of mine [see Iran pages] is interested in defences so I took the opportunity to photograph any interesting-looking guns and other weapons of mass destruction. This page is going to be mostly pictures because it is not a subject which I know anything about; I consider such things to be boy-toys and therefore outside my range of expertise.

A tiny adjustment to the bottom scroll bar will bring the table fully in view on a 17" monitor and 1024 x 768 screen resolution. Anyone with a wider screen should have no problems; I got tired of making minor pixel adjustments to the size of the images. Sorry about that; maybe one day ...


I took this picture because of the cat.
I think that it is in Ouarzazate

This lovely little gun is in Tangier.
It has Arabic writing on it.

This big gun in Tangier is the baby brother
of the 100 ton guns which are in Malta and Gibraltar
Made by Armstrong of Newcastle on Tyne

This collection is in the museum at Chefchaouen
A mortar in Essaouira

Stretching into the distance to protect the harbour at Essouira
One of the many at Essaouira protecting the harbour

Made in Barcelona
in 1780

Fortifications at Essouira to protect the harbour
Fortifications at Essouira put to a more peaceful use

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