Taken a few months ago on a little road trip around Kent. After feasting on a delicious meal of Pie, Mash, Liqour and Jellied Eels, all washed down with a cup of strong tea and a little look around Ramsgate; we headed for Cliffe Fort!
It was an interesting one to access via an active aggregates yard and then through some pretty nasty undergrowth! The weather was also really quite up and down. Though we have had an utterly glorious summer (More heat please!) in 2026; this was during that weird period early on in the summer where it was cooler and bucketing it down with rain all the time! We got utterly soaked through and through; though it did make for some good photos!
Cliffe Fort was built between 1861 and 1870 as part of The Royal Comission's Coastal Defence Strategy. It was one of several Casemated Forts in place to keep London safe from Seaborne Attack! Strategically positioned on the Hoo Peninsula in a place where the Thames narrows; it formed a defence along the Shommead and Coalhouse Forts. Armed with Heavy Artillery and later home to a Brennan Torpedo Station (An early version of a Guided Missile System) it was briefly active in the 19th Century.
The site suffers terribly from subsidence. It served in WW2 and has been disused since the 1950s.
Believe it or not; these are all within an hour of one another!
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It was an interesting one to access via an active aggregates yard and then through some pretty nasty undergrowth! The weather was also really quite up and down. Though we have had an utterly glorious summer (More heat please!) in 2026; this was during that weird period early on in the summer where it was cooler and bucketing it down with rain all the time! We got utterly soaked through and through; though it did make for some good photos!
Cliffe Fort was built between 1861 and 1870 as part of The Royal Comission's Coastal Defence Strategy. It was one of several Casemated Forts in place to keep London safe from Seaborne Attack! Strategically positioned on the Hoo Peninsula in a place where the Thames narrows; it formed a defence along the Shommead and Coalhouse Forts. Armed with Heavy Artillery and later home to a Brennan Torpedo Station (An early version of a Guided Missile System) it was briefly active in the 19th Century.
The site suffers terribly from subsidence. It served in WW2 and has been disused since the 1950s.
Believe it or not; these are all within an hour of one another!
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