Walk In The Park

This gun was cast at the Carron Ironworks at Sterling, Scotland in 1813. The date 1837 on the barrel probably indicates it was bored out to convert it from a 24Pr to a 32 Pr in that year. It may have originally been a naval gun and the conversion undertaken when it was brought ashore. It is very probably one of the 15 guns that are known to have constituted the defences of Victoria in 1860. It was possibly sited at Cannon Hill before the defences moved to Flagstaff Hill. It resides in the Botanical Gardens.