AA/15" Battery, Kent - July 2014

A spot that I've been wanting to do for a long time now: the remains of a 2x15" naval gun battery, along with a flanking anti-aircraft site. I've mostly covered the AA site on this visit. Visited within a very limited time span and I had to pop off a lot of photos on auto. I honestly thought this place would be smaller and easier to get around, but it's like an overgrown labyrinth in there! Definitely going back to see some bits I missed at a later date. The weather was something like what I think the Scots call dreich, a sort of misty drizzle that permeates everything and it was seriously messing with my lens. I ended up soaking my trousers, wading through the long grass and drove home in my boxers for all the old ladies on the buses to see

Remains of the perimeter fencing.
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First building I came across. It was a large space, with windows on one side and loop holes on the other.
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Inside.
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Facing back, towards the door.
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Found these on the window seal. A torch, a small screwdriver and some books. They were new and the damp hadn't yet gotten to them. Looks like maybe someone was spending a bit of time there.
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Part of the remnants of the 15" battery. A guardhouse or something similar. Total door porn!
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A sign of good things to come!
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Inside, one of the most awesome magazines I've ever seen! I was really starting to feel in my element here. Trolleys would have shuttled the huge shells along a concrete path to the gun from these areas.
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Another room branching off of the main magazine room.
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The aforementioned room.
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More door porn
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Control room for the 15" guns.
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Entrance to the second magazine for the 15" guns.
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AA gun pit.
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The box shaped parts that you see are these small enclosures.
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Control centre for the AA battery.
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An area inside the control centre.
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Vent on the top of one of the magazines for one of three AA pits.
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AA magazine.
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Inside.
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Soggy, but well worth it! That's all for now, folks! Stay tuned for more on this one!

Thanks for looking.

SJ.

Looks alright this, looks very hidden too. And the lack of graff probably means it is. Thanks for sharing

Nice to see one looking so clean and great shots.

Very nice indeed.

Great stuff thx maybe well worth a winter visit there

Is this Wanstone farm battery?

Cheers newage

Newage said:

Is this Wanstone farm battery?

Cheers newage

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Aye, tis. Good eye.

Like the look of that, nice one Jim

Well done him,loving this one.and it is very clean.

I very much hope there is Graff in there, we found loads of graff from the time it was active, hope its not all been lost.

outkast said:

I very much hope there is Graff in there, we found loads of graff from the time it was active, hope its not all been lost.

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Don't worry, the old stuff is still there, I just didn't get round to photographing it! Will hopefully get pics next time!

Nice shots, looks an interesting place. Good to see the graffiti gremlins have not gotten their hands on it

Dugie

Bit of the old graffiti that's in there for you folks:

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I left out the shemale drawing and the description of what the bloke in suspenders did More pics from the site and other new explores on my Flickr.

Looks a good mooch. Cheers!