page_title: Clifford's Fort
section_title: Present day
hierarchical_section_title: Clifford's Fort / Present day
caption_attribution_description: English: Buildings on Clifford's Fort: former smokehouses, Old Low Light, former barracks, fishmongers' stalls.
context_page_description: Clifford's Fort was a defensive gun battery established near the mouth of the Tyne during the Anglo-Dutch Wars in the 17th century. It subsequently served as a submarine mining depot and survives today as a Scheduled Ancient Monument in the historic Fish Quay area of North Shields, Tyne and Wear, in North East England.
context_section_description: Starting in 2008 the remains of the fort were comprehensively restored: a number of modern buildings were removed and the moat was reinstated. In 2013 the fort was removed from the Heritage at Risk Register; this followed a £1 million refurbishment scheme, funded by North Tyneside Council and the Heritage Lottery Fund, which completed the restoration of the fort and  brought unused buildings back into use (including the Old Low Light, which opened to the public in 2015 as a museum telling the history of the site).
caption: Buildings on the fort today (left-right): Smokehouses (formerly mine stores), Old Low Light, 'The Barracks' (c.1893) and fishmongers' stalls.
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