The People of Gibraltar
1870 - Photos of Gibraltar - Part 2

13. Sea Front and Casemates Parade Ground
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1. Pontoons identifying the harbour boundaries  2. The Old Mole  3. Commercial Mole  4. Military bathing facilities  5. Bastions and batteries of the 1st line of defence  6. Market place  7. Bastions and batteries of the 2nd line of defence  8. Montague Bastion  9. Battery guardhouse  10. Casemates - Pavilions  11. Port Office  12. Guardhouse  13. Second Waterport gates - Casemate Gates  14. Casemates barracks  15. Parade Ground  16. Pavilions for troops and schools for their children

14. Casemates Parade Ground


1. Rock Gun  2. New battery with 100 ton gun  3. Northern wall of the Moorish Castle   4. Ammunition stores  5. Western wall of the Moorish Castle  6. Casemates barracks  7. Pavilions for the troops  8. Casino, billiard rooms and schools for children  9. Exit to Landport Gate  10. Water tower

15. Commercial Wharf
This view is missing in the Spanish Military of Defence collection. 


1. San Felipe breakwater  2. Ballesteros Barracks  3. Spanish military pavilions  4. Water wharf on the Isthmus  5. Hutments for English infantry on the isthmus  7. Waterport front in Gibraltar  8. Entrance to the Old Mole  9. Commercial wharf  10. Drawbridge - between the two police tollbooths  11. Police tollbooths  12. Montague Bastion

16. Line Wall Bay Defences


1. San Roque  2. Sierra Carbonera  3. La Línea de la Concepción  4. The Old Mole  5. Defensive breakwaters  6. Chatham’s Counterguard  7. Armoured Orange Bastion  8. Orange Bastion  barracks and stores   9. Prince Albert’s Front 10. The old wall - Hispano-Moorish  11. Reserve stores 

17. The Town


1. Tower of Homage of the Moorish Castle  2. The Castle’s artillery barracks  3. Ammunition store - Old Moorish entrance to the Castle precinct once known as Bab-al -Fath   4. Stanley’s Clock Tower  5. Small guardhouse  6. Battery near Stanley’s Tower  7. Southern wall of the Castle  8. Sierra Carbonera

18. Eastern enclosure of the Moorish Castle


1. Ammunition store  2. Castle wall  3. Civil prison  4. Tower of Homage  5. Artillery officers’ pavilions


19. Northern part of the town from the steep slope of the Rock


1. Punta Mala 2. Campamento  3. San Roque  4. Sierra Carboner   5. San Felipe breakwater  6. San Felipe guardhouse  7. Spanish sentry boxes  8. Ballesteros barracks in La Línea  9. Flanking battery at Landport  10. Moorish Castle  11. Entrance to the Moorish Castle  12. Battery next to Stanley’s Clock Tower  13. Commercial Wharf  14. Waterport fortifications  15. The Old Mole  16. Montague Bastion  17. Chatham’s Counter-guard  18. Orange Bastion


20. North part of the Town from the Colonial Hospital


1. San Roque  2. Sierra Carbonera  3. San Felipe breakwater  4. Eastern wall of the Moorish Castle  5. Southern wall of the Moorish Castle  6. The Old Mole  7. Orange Bastion


21. View of the Town from the steep slope of the Rock


1. Inns of Guadarranque  2. Puente Mayorga  3. Punta Mala  4. Campamento  5. San Roque  6. Sierra Carbonera  7. San Felipe breakwater  8. The Old Mole  9. Montague Bastion  10. Orange Bastion  11. Prince Albert’s Front  12. King’s Bastion and barracks  13. Fortified barracks at Wellington Front  14. Armoured Rosario Bastion  15. Old Rosario Bastion  16. Distillery  17. Charles V Wall 18. South Port Gate  19. Trafalgar Cemetery   20. Gardiner’s Battery  21. Flat Bastion  22. Battery above the Hospice  23. Battery on the slope of the Rock  24. Devil’s Gap Battery  25. Protestant Cathedral  26. Governor’s Palace - Convent of the Franciscan friars  27. Offices of the Major General  28. Offices of the Governor  29. Treasury and Pay Office  30. Garrison entertainment centre  31. Artillery store 32. Barracks and stores for engineers  33. Barracks and stores for military administrators  34. Military workshops  35. Town Range Barracks  36. Foundations of yet to be built Assembly Rooms

22. The Town, the Moorish Wall and the Hacho - Signal Station
The “Moorish Wall” of the title is actually Charles V Wall. The wall known at that time as the Moorish Wall lay just north of Charles V. It was not Moorish as it was built by the Italian engineer known as el Fratino. The work started under Charles V and was finished during the reign of Phillip II - hence its present day name of Phillip II .


1. Punta Mala  2. The Old Mole  3. Orange Bastion  4. Prince Albert’s Front  5. King’s Bastion  6. Wellington Front  7. Armoured Rosario Bastion  8. El Hacho - Signal Station

23. Gunner’s Parade 
Known nowadays as Governor’s Parade. This view is missing in the Spanish Military of Defence collection. 


1. Biblioteca military - Garrison Library  2. Saint Andrew’s Church (Reformist)  3. Town Range Barracks  4. Sentry of the Artillery Barracks

24. Governor’s Palace - Old Franciscan Monastery
Know nowadays simply as “the Convent”.  There were no identification numbers on this photograph.




1870 - Photos of Gibraltar - Introduction
1870 - Photos of Gibraltar - Part 1
1870 - Photos of Gibraltar - Part 3
1870 - Photos of Gibraltar - Part 4