Shoebury Visit Part 1 - Ranges, Jetty, and a smaller Battery

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BTP Liam

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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!)
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Next is an artificial mound built up to stop small arms rounds from straying off on the ranges.
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Here is what looks like an old road
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Here is a cool sign - a metal object was in my bug until this point :mrgreen:
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Here is the sluice from the site made from cement-filled sandbags solidified under water
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Next is some cute birds - yes even some of you hard core 'bexers find this cute.
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Then a jetty used to collect guns brought from Woolwich by barge
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And here is a bunker we got in by a small hole in the metal shuttering

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Nice shots Liam, did you do the experimental battery nearby?
 
Very nice but the first photo is just an MOD boundary marker, nothing to do with ordnance survey which have a bar across the top of the arrow or a rivet. Think the photos could do with being a tad bigger but spot on report.
 
Ok thanks, sorry about the pics you can see them bigger if you click on the link and then click on the images in the site. Also if you go to the bottom of the linked site there are 2 facebook albums for pics on the whole trip.
Also the experimental battery is the big one there isn't it?
 
Ok thanks, sorry about the pics you can see them bigger if you click on the link and then click on the images in the site. Also if you go to the bottom of the linked site there are 2 facebook albums for pics on the whole trip.
Also the experimental battery is the big one there isn't it?

Yes, for a prief period when the barracks closed both of the battery you pictured and the experimental battery were open.

heres a period pic of it

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Ok thanks - I've seen that period pic before, which is truly excellent as its not changed much but also you can see what has. Seeing it now and then is great.
 

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