east tilbury

History: The battery is located just half a mile away from Coalhouse Fort, in East Tilbury. The battery was constructed in 1887-93 and supplemented Coalhouse Fort as part of the Thames’ coastal defence system. It housed six 10 and 6 inch long range firing weapons, mounted on disappearing...

Me and man gone wrong were in the area and we decided to go have a look at this fort. I had come across it online and soon found it on maps. I do like these gun batteries so we were quite pleased to see it was still in good condition. Built and finished in 1893 the fort consisted of six guns...

I apologise in advance for the quality of photos. I was not particularly thinking of framing, lighting etc. during this time. I will also ensure I do not get people in the shots in future reports. Often visited the Coalhouse Fort as a kid with my family and heard my Dad mention about...

I dont normally post stuff straight away but this place was a pleasant surprise so thought Id do it while fresh in my mind. So I am off work this week, but our company had a hours work down Southend so I offered to do this foc so long as my mileage is paid so my Son & I could spend the day...

History The factory was built in 1932, founded by Tomas Bata, to offer over 4000 new jobs to the people of East Tilbury. The company made a huge difference for the people as they provided homes for all the workers known as the Bata Estate. The factory ran for over 70 years until production...

“Situated just half a mile away from Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury Battery, was constructed from 1887-93 and supplemented Coalhouse Fort as part of the Thames’ coastal defence system. It housed six long range firing weapons, mounted on disappearing carriages. There were two six-pdr guns on the...

I'm quite new to this whole thing, and probably pretty young to a lot of people, but lately me and my mates have decided it's worth the money to travel further than our local area to find some decent places to explore, even if we are all broke as fuck. History The Bata Shoe Factory was built in...

Having visited Coalhouse Fort on one of its open days, I decided to wander along to an old favourite, the heavily overgrown East Tilbury Battery. The history of this battery has recently been posted here so I will just give a short summary from Subterranean History: "This gun battery was...

Hot weather, barbed wire, Nipple-high nettles and Thorns the size of my pinky will sum this place up, but once you've wrestled with nature we where gladly rewarded, with mint Graffitti-free Walls, original signs and wood which has not been pulled down or burnt. The boring part East...

Me, Tamasine and Steve visted this site the same day we went to the east tilbury battery, the AA battery is located on bowater farm appox 1 and half miles north west of coalhouse fort, of all the defences located at east tilbury it was the only one to fire a shot in anger and was in action...

Well today Outkast, Stevec047 and myself headed off to East Tilbury Battery to finish off exploring the place after Outkasts initial post. BIG thankyou to him for showing us around and providing us with the knowledge of the place. Would have been a nightmare otherwise, PLUS he is the first to...

This was a very difficult explore due to the site being vastly overgrown, it took a couple of attempts to get in and I only managed to get to part of the site, the rest was just too overgrown, if I had known in advance how bad it was I would have taken a machette or garden shears. Heres a bit...