Great Eastern Storehouse

This important assemblage of buildings in hard Bermuda limestone it takes on the appearance of a small industrial town, although the defense works constructed around it ensure that its identity is intimately associated with the repair, provision and replacement of armaments for the ships of the Royal Navy. A complex and ordered site, it contains many important landmarks, including the Great Eastern Storehouse (or “Clock Tower Building”), constructed c. 1850, and the buildings of the Victualling Yard (c. 1850). The Commissioner’s House at the nearby Keep, a part of the Dockyard defense works, is a significant example of the early use of cast iron in a domestic house. This building now houses the Bermuda Maritime Museum.

Victualling Yard

Commissioner's House

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