Plan - Sketch (copy), Proposed Military Road, St Kilda to Sandridge, P H Scratchley, 7 Apr 1860

Historical information

Copy (1865) of an 1860 sketch for a proposed Military Road from the Sandridge fortifications to the St Kilda battery to enable the rapid deployment of troops, artillery, and naval volunteers across the beachfront. This proposal was instigated by the Crimean War and concern of a possible Russian invasion.

Physical description

Black and white copies of a sketch plan, taken in three sections plus a combined plan

Inscriptions & markings

Signed by P H Scratchley 7 April 1860

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