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| Interesting Addresses; Garbett Street, Accrington, England. BB5 0 Garbett Way, Bishopthorpe, York, YO23 2 Garbett Street, Stoke on Trent, ST6 5 Garbett Road, Telford, TF4 3 Garbett Close, Wem, Shrewsbury, SY4 5 Garbett Road, Winchester, SO23 0 Garbetts Way, Tongham, Farnham, Surrey, GU10 1 Garbetts Way, Tongham, would have no dought been named after the vicar of Tongham, Reverend Garbett. Garbett Way, Bishopthorpe, York, would have been named after the Vicar of Tonghams son, Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York. Do you know how the others got thier names? Please let me know. Where is a town or County in the USA called "Garbett" Please let me know! More addresses named Garbett, please let me know! |
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| Here is an old address, no longer in existence; Garbett St, Ladywood, Birmingham |
| Garbett Road, Kirkton Campus, Livingston, West Lothian |
| NAVAL GUNNERY - A DESCRIPTION AND HISTORY OF THE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT OF A MAN-OF-WAR by Captain H.Garbett R.N. S.R. Publishers Ltd. (1971) ISBN 0 85409 739 2 This is a reprint of a book originally published in 1897. The book starts with a brief history of naval gunnery up to the end of the Crimean War. It then deals with the introduction into service of the various Armstrong and Lanchester Rifled Breech Loading Guns of the 1860s, their failure and replacement by Rifled Muzzle Loading Guns, the reintroduction of the Rifled Breech Loading gun in 1879, and the development of Quick Firing Guns in the 1880s. It also covers topics such as the design of gun mountings, projectiles and fuzes, the change from gunpowder to cordite, the organisation of magazines, shell-rooms, and ammunition supply, and the fighting organisation (including the creation of Naval Brigades) of a modern battleship. |
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