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In January my friend and I visited the remains of Shoebury Battery - from what I understand most remnants seen here are WW2 unless otherwise stated. The Battery ran as a sea defence from the Victorian Era up until the 1960s, when the troops were finally dismissed in the 1980s. It also had an attached garrison (now posh houses converted, including air-raid shelters in your garden e.t.c.) and firing ranges. The ranges and battery now are part of 'Gunner's Park' - the name is very unsuspecting . It is publically open and is almost comparable to an urbex themepark - every few steps brings you to a new attraction. Here are the first things we saw (keep an eye out for the next parts which get better- there's too much to fit into one article):
Check out this link for more pictures, info, and a YouTube Documentary
http://beyondthepoint.co.uk/2012/04...sit-part-1-the-ranges-jetty-and-gunners-park/
This is a War Department Ordnance Survey Marker (please tell me what they were for!)
Next is an artificial mound built up to stop small arms rounds from straying off on the ranges.
Here is what looks like an old road
Here is a cool sign - a metal object was in my bug until this point
Here is the sluice from the site made from cement-filled sandbags solidified under water
Next is some cute birds - yes even some of you hard core 'bexers find this cute.
Then a jetty used to collect guns brought from Woolwich by barge
And here is a bunker we got in by a small hole in the metal shuttering
In January my friend and I visited the remains of Shoebury Battery - from what I understand most remnants seen here are WW2 unless otherwise stated. The Battery ran as a sea defence from the Victorian Era up until the 1960s, when the troops were finally dismissed in the 1980s. It also had an attached garrison (now posh houses converted, including air-raid shelters in your garden e.t.c.) and firing ranges. The ranges and battery now are part of 'Gunner's Park' - the name is very unsuspecting . It is publically open and is almost comparable to an urbex themepark - every few steps brings you to a new attraction. Here are the first things we saw (keep an eye out for the next parts which get better- there's too much to fit into one article):
Check out this link for more pictures, info, and a YouTube Documentary
http://beyondthepoint.co.uk/2012/04...sit-part-1-the-ranges-jetty-and-gunners-park/
This is a War Department Ordnance Survey Marker (please tell me what they were for!)
Next is an artificial mound built up to stop small arms rounds from straying off on the ranges.
Here is what looks like an old road
Here is a cool sign - a metal object was in my bug until this point
Here is the sluice from the site made from cement-filled sandbags solidified under water
Next is some cute birds - yes even some of you hard core 'bexers find this cute.
Then a jetty used to collect guns brought from Woolwich by barge
And here is a bunker we got in by a small hole in the metal shuttering