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The sea wall along the river Crouch and around the Dengie peninsula, Essex, features a large number of war time pill boxes. This has always struck me as a little odd, as the place feels remote, empty apart from a few farms. This structure is a mine field control tower, built against the threat of invasion in 1940, the British authorities fearing that invasion troops would land via the 'back door' - the river Crouch being navigable some way inland at the time to fairly large vessels. Landings here would have placed invasion troops behind the main Thames Estuary defences and only around 30 miles from central London. The estuary was mined and covered by a system of crude rocket launchers to protect against this threat, controlled from this tower and I suspect a large number of the pill boxes nearby were to protect this structure.
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SPURN POINT sea defences...
Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber Estuary.
It was a spit with a semi-permanent connection to the mainland, but a storm in 2013 made the road down to the end of Spurn impassable to vehicles at high tide.
The island is over 3 miles (5 kilometres) long, almost half the width of the estuary at that point, and as little as 50 yards (46 m) wide in places.
The southernmost tip is known as Spurn Head or Spurn Point and is the home to an RNLI lifeboat station and two disused lighthouses.
Over time, the whole spit, length intact, slips back – with the spit-head remaining on its glacial foundation.
This process has now been affected by the protection of the spit put in place during the Victorian era.
This protection halted the wash-over process and resulted in the spit being even more exposed due to the rest of the coast moving back 110 yards (100 m) since the 'protection' was constructed.
The now crumbling defences will not be replaced and the spit will continue to move westwards at a rate of 2.2 yards (2 m) per year, keeping pace with the coastal erosion further north.
or what is sadly left of it
We were there when it was still accessible!
After a job that took us around Hull, we decided to push through to Spurn-point.
Spurn is a very unique place in the British Islands.
It is a nature reserve.
Three and a half miles long and only fifty meters wide in places on the left side of the estuary of the river Humber.
There are a series of sea defence works built by the Victorians and maintained by the Ministry of defence, till they sold Spurn to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust in the 1950s.
The defences are in a poor state, breaking down and crumbling, making Spurn a very fragile place wide open to the ravages of the North Sea.
It is a unique place, qua fauna and flora, very protected; there weren't many people on that Good Friday.
This is what is left of the sea defences on the North Sea side, eerie, tragic, but extremely photogenic...
The light was sweet.
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Next to the Cramond Island high tide causeway are these protective structures, creating an anti-submarine defence to the south of the island.
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Camera: Minolta X-300
Lens: Minolta 50mm F1.7
Filter: Hoya Yellow(K2)
Film: Ilford Pan 400 (Expired 06/2013, shot at 250ISO)
Processing and Scanning: Gulabi Photo Lab, Glasgow
Post Processing: Photoscape X
The defence museum in Ronne bornholm.info/en/defence-museum on the Danish island of Bornholm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornholm
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Chatted with the very talented Rod (blue fin art) when taking this image which is actually the second time we have met whilst out and about.
My main display for LEGOmania at the boys' school this week. Still need to build two simple basplate displays for some of my Star Wars builds, but those should be quick to do...
It is supposed to be a cut-away of a defence hangar dug into the Vesta asteroid. The Orcinus is obviously outside the asteroid and everything else is supposed to be inside. All things considered I think it ended up coming across as I had wanted.
Israeli Defence Force McDonnell-Douglas F-15D Baz '733'/90-0275 from 106 'Tip of the Spear' Squadron
Using call-sign 'Stone 41' she is named Raz Ha'Melech - The King's Messenger and along with six other D & C Eagle models including KC-707 Re-em tanker support she spent some three weeks at RAF Waddington as part of Exercise 'Cobra Warrior' 2019
Call-sign and related info courtesy of FC
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The Northumbrian coast is littered with the remnants of World War 2 anti tank defences. This image was taken on a stormy morning before dawn on Alnmouth Beach.
The sea defences on Cleethorpes beach at low tide under a rain filled sky, however shortly after it cleared up in to a lovely day.
Alnmouth beach, Northern England.
These concrete cubes were placed on Alnmouth beach during WWII to impede the progress of any German invasion. They are very photogenic and have a brutalist nature to them. They make good hiding places for kids playing on the beach and they make handy seats for adults.
Sea defences at New Brighton and Fort Perch in the background.
This looked very unpromising on the screen but has come out better than I hoped.