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Here's something I forgot to take a picture of at the Shirley Heights military complex. Also, the bottom pic is the sheltered part of the lookout. I didn't think to shoot the open part of it. Anyway, here's what the textbox says:

"At the most southernly tip of Antigua, The Lookout, part of the Shirley Heights military complex, commands a breathtaking view over the whole of English Harbor. Behind the catchment, on the highest ground, 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, is the Signal Station from which a system of flags was used by day and guns by night to convey messages to St. John's by the way of Great Fort George on Monk's Hill.

The Shirley Heights military complex also includes a guard house, magazine and kitchen, officers' quarters, adjoining parade grounds, a 30-bed hospital, canteen, and a cemetery. An obelisk in the cemetery commemorates the officers and the men of 54th Regiment (2nd Battalion Dorsets) who died in service in the West Indies between 1840 and 1851."