Report - Coastal Gun Battery (March 2011)

[Vertex]

Found this one not too far from where we live. Well worth checking out and making sure you take the time to walk the length of it as it's fairly big.

Bit of a bramble-fest so long sleeves recommended!

Since posting the report, I found out that it was originally built before the war so isn't TECHNICALLY an AA battery. Presumably bigger guns were added during WW2.

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[Berserker]

Where abouts in Essex is this one dude?

 

[Ordnance]

Ditto, A clue to its location would be handy as I would like to look into its original usage!

Has a look of East Tilbury gun battery to me.

 

[Berserker]

Ditto, A clue to its location would be handy as I would like to look into its original usage!

Has a look of East Tilbury gun battery to me.

Yeah, Its the east Tilbury one, theres another thread on here with picture of this exact place, gonna have to check this one out...

 

[Ordnance]

Yep, I later did a search on 'East Tilbury' and found 8 reports on it. Built in 1890 as a Coastal Gun Battery. Abandoned since before WW1

No WW2 Military use other than a local air raid shelter.

http://www.victorianforts.co.uk/pdf/datasheets/easttilbury.pdf


# Is an old report ~ Report Title Amended

 

[Hammers129]

Check out Harwich if you like this, similar and had a visit there not so long ago, simple entry point