magazines

The Centre Bastion we know today was built in 1825 during the expansion of De Gomme’s original Sheerness Lines defences from 1670. It was originally armed with 64 pounder guns only for 2 10” mark 111 RML guns to be added. These were loaded with ammunition from the magazine tunnels below which...

Often mistaken for the nearby Centre Bastion or somehow the fort at Garrison Point (by clickbaiters and idiots), Bastion Number 1 was part of the “Sheerness Lines” which is basically like the Western Heights or Chatham Lines of Sheppey but with a water-filled moat. The old Sheerness Lines were...

Great local explore the other night at Fort Pitt. After many years of researching and going out searching for an entry point, we had received a message about the location. The fort itself was designed with red brick walls, a 15ft moat (defence ditch) and a bastion on each edge of the fort. It...

Brief History Fort Pitt began its life as a military hospital in 1803 but was fortified a couple of years later due to its strategic significance and was armed to the teeth (ten 18-pound cannons, 22 18-pound carronades and four 10-pound mortars). The layout was red-brick walls with a bastion on...

I first stumbled across this place year ago when flitting about Google Earth looking for things; at the time it was being used as a car storage yard by a farm and I ignored it. Fast forward a number of years andI found it it is up for redevelopment, so having a day to myself I decided to head...

Part of the South Foreland Battery, these gun magazines are probably the most obvious on the site. They would've held ammunition for Number 2 and 3 guns further down. We also tried out Wire Wool for the first time here.

I have to say that Fan Bay is one of the more interesting underground tunnel complexes in the Dover area as it comprises lined & unlined sections, as well as having light & ventilation fittings still in place. Add to this a bit of original graffiti and an 'interesting' entrance & exit experience...