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<font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">Star Chamber is reached by travelling through Hanover Gallery (1789) and Kings Gallery (1787-89). The entrance to Hanover Gallery is indicated by the black arrow in the map above. This entire tunnel system is known as the Lower Galleries. This area cannot be visited by tourists and is in an extremely poor state having been vandalised in recent years.</font>
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<p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">Hanover Gallery and Battery were named in honour of the Hanoverian Regiments who fought in Gibraltar alongside British Troops during the Great Siege of 1779-83.</font></p>
<p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">The photograph above shows one of the three chambers that make up Kings Gallery.</font></p>
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<p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">Star Chamber is a natural cave which already had an opening at the northern end of Kings Lines, it became the focal point of tunnelling activity in the late 18th century, the brick buildings seen in the panorama opposite were inserted during WW2.</font></p>
<p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">The incline of Lower Prince's Gallery (1790) can be seen in the panorama, this leads upward to the Prince's Lines above.</font></p>
<p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">Bombproof Gallery (1789), this leads into the King's Lines bombproof emplacement.</font></p>
<p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">St. Patrick's Chamber (1790) is a small chamber with several galleries leading from it to the Common's Hall, Orillon Batteries and The Queen's Galleries. A loop-holed wall exist in the chamber at the entrance to Queen's Galleries. This would have allowed musket bearing troops to defend the position if an enemy had breached star chamber. The photograph below shows this clearly from within Queens Gallery.</font></p>
<p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">In the panorama opposite you will see a rusting tank which has been cut to provide a defensive position during tunnel warfare training exercises.</font></p>
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<p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">The photograph below shows Queens Gallery South West Gallery (1789)</font></p>
<p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">This wooden gate which is the only surviving wooden structure within Queens Gallery, is completely covered in fungus.</font></p>
<p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">Common's Hall, is a large chamber, with four embrasures in which a battery was housed.</font></p>
<p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">During the Second World War the embrasures were fortified and made into machine-gun nests. Painted above each position are the range cards in colour. Despite the vandalism it is still possible to see the depiction of the terrain northwards towards Spain, the ranges and bearings are reasonably clear.</font></p>
<p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">The photograph below show a painting of some kind of regimental insignia.</font></p>
<p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">3rd Orillon Gallery (1788), leads from St. Patrick's Chamber into this fairly large chamber shown in the panorama opposite, in latter years was used as a bake-house and one of the extremely dilapidated ovens can still be seen. Two wide ledges have been cut into the walls of this emplacement, about six feet up, these supported large wooden planks, which formed a platform for a gun. It is interesting to note the use of "old English" in the sign which reads "3nd" instead of the modern "3rd", this can be seen in the photograph below.</font></p>
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<p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">A lower Orillon emplacement is reached via steps called PAGES RAISE shown in the photographs below. The steps are found further along Queens Gallery.</font></p>
<p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">Three guns were mounted, forming the 1st Orillon Battery. There is a certain confusion today as to the location of the 2nd and 4th Orillon Batteries. The name Orillon is French for little ear from Oreille = ear, it is a term used in fortification jargon. Vaughban being the great French architect of fortifications who provided many of the military terms; Bastion, Couvreport, Demi-Bastion , Galcis, etc.</font>
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