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Jordan is a country that's never been featured on here before so I thought I'd post this up, even though the building isn't especially interesting. It's either an unfinished hotel or apartment block, I'm not sure. The location is prime for tourists visiting the dead sea, and it has views looking...

The Convent of the Holy Child History The Convent of the Holy Child was established in the mid-19th century by the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, a Roman Catholic teaching order founded in 1846. The St Leonards site developed during the Victorian expansion of the seaside town, with the main...

A brief history. The site was purchased from the Eversfield Estate in 1834 with the objective of re-establishing the Roman Catholic Church in eastern Sussex following the 1929 Catholic Emancipation Act. Originally it was planned to be the site of a convent and the mother church of the Deanery...

History In 1887 a lift shaft was dug down from the Needles Old Battery and five tunnels dug out to form gun emplacements in the northern cliff face at Alum Bay. These were built for quick-firing guns to combat torpedo boats in the Needles passage. By 1892, one of the emplacements was being used...

Sea Level Fort - Isle Of Wight History Struggled to find much on this place but here’s what I’ve got. The sea-level fort at Alum Bay, near The Needles, is part of the Needles Old Battery, a 19th-century coastal defense system built to protect the Solent from naval attacks. The fortifications...

History The cave was first explored in 1966 and In November of 1968 an archaeological report was performed under the direction of MR R. A. Kennedy, curator of the Pembroke county museum where bones and teeth were discovered which belonged to OX and wild boar, Small fragments of pottery dating...

The History I’ve not got much in the way of history for this one but a report of the hospital by @Frosty can be found here. www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/sea-bathing-hospital-hotel-margate-10-6-09.46328/ The Explore The hospital has long been converted but an old scruffy building still...

Worth a watch as it features lots of internal filming of Russian foxtrot sub in the Medway https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_(film)

Hope I have chosen the right forum to post in! Visited with Ella. In the area and heard it was open so off we went. Spent a while sat outside in the car wondering if we should go for it coz there was a man in a car outside. Upon closer inspection it was a woman having a sleep, think I need...

The history Not loads of history to be found here I’m afraid. Originally built in the 1920s as part of an ambitious plan to create a new development called Ainsdale on Sea following the rail expansion up the coast from Liverpool. It was hoped that the apartments would form part of a larger...

Red Sands Sea Fort Thames Estuary, UK cc2021 Here is the start of my Maunsell, Red Sands Fort report, situated in the Thames Estuary (1 of 3 forts, 2 remain) ..i'll touch on the remaining two Forts at a later time.. OVERVIEW :- The offshore forts, or towers, were originally World War II...

not an underground bunker but a bunker none the less. The sign to this bunker will tell you the history behind it. U can easily walk in the bunker however its nothing special as it has no other rooms or a underground section. If u travel up the rest of the billy trail, u will see a massive brick...

This is my first report so feel free to attack it as much as you like ;) THERE IS CURRENTLY ONGOING ASBESTOS REMOVALS AT THIS LOCATION, PLEASE STAY SAFE. 1. Firstly the history of the school. The history of the school is very scarce and quite hard to find, from what i have gathered it opened...

Dating back as early as 1897, the Short Brothers had always had an interest in aviation. At the turn of the century they were already selling coal-gas filled balloons for people to fly, but it was the first flight by two brothers in 1903 that really intrigued them. Eustace, Oswald and Horace...

History: Brett Aggregates was first established in 1909 by Robert Brett. Since it's opening 111 years ago, the company has gone on to operate 25 aggregates sites in the South-East, including Kent, Essex, Suffolk, Surrey, East Sussex, and parts of south and east London. It also operates two...