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Hatherwood Point Battery - So ugly that its beautiful? Discuss :)
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A type 26/FW3 pillbox sits atop the soft cliffs at Happisburgh. It knows its fate. Like everything along here, it will be consumed by the North Sea.
In 1667 the French government built a small fort on the tidal island of Petit Bé. The fort was part of the defences that Vauban designed to protect Saint-Malo from British and Dutch fleets. A garrison of 177 men manned the fort and served its guns. The French army occupied the fort until 1885. Later, the army turned the fort over to the city of Saint-Malo. Seen from the city ramparts, it doesn’t seem much, but looking at all the forts in the area, you can almost imagine how formidable the city defences once were.
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Another shot of the various defences on Kilnsea beach. They are big lumps of concrete! The tide was on tne way out and I guess I arrived about 30 minutes late to catch the best of it washing around these blocks.
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This pile of rocks form a rudimentary sea defence at the base of a small loose cliff. Some plant life, in this case an invasive bamboo, become established even in this hostile area.
Another shot from Brighton, taken the day before the workshop when a few of us met up to shoot. It was very bright and pretty windy, but this shot of the sea defences at Shoreham harbour turned out better than I thought it would. I also have a nice panoramic crop of this that will no doubt show up online one day.
Thanks to Noel Clegg for showing us this location, and to Mike Diblicek for driving us all around!
Seen heading northbound on the M1 motorway at Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire.
No information at all on this vehicle.
Nothing on the DVLA website appears for this registration.
It looks like Plaxton Panther body work.
I reckon its an MOD (Ministry of Defence) vehicle similar to FE14 DGF which I have photographed and is believed to be MOD.
Hoek van Holland is an amazing place which you have to visit every now and then. Today we explored HvH!
A fresco (1537) of the defence of Constantinople against Persians dressed as Turks in 626 appears on the south wall of Moldovita Monastery in Bukovina, Romania.
Well, old ones! Appearing as the tide goes down on the beach at Happisburgh - some of them look as though they could be quite lethal!
Saturday morning at Pitstone Hill.
Some recent scrub clearance means you can now clearly see these Iron Age defences on the hillside.
New Brighton sea defences head on. Was waiting on these very slippery rocks for the tide to expose the stones!
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Old gun defences at the entrance to Hull marina, Kingston Upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England.
I had a trip to Arbroath to catch the sunrise, it didn't really come to much, but what did take my notice was the work going on to reinforce the sea wall defences, the JCB's and dump truck were well at it. So its not very often you see this, so thought I would post it.
Warden Point Battery - Warden Point, Kent.
World War 2 sea defences at Warden Point on the Isle of Sheppey. The pillboxes have fallen in to the sea due to the eroding coastline on the island.
On Gordon Point are the remains of Fort Ballance, a defence site that was once Wellington's primary source of protection against sea-borne invasion. Built in 1885 following fears of an impeding war with Russia, Fort Ballance is one of the best preserved of a string of nineteenth century coastal defences constructed to protect New Zealand from a naval attack. In 1885, the Government, reluctantly acknowledging that they could not rely solely on Britain for protection, commissioned engineer Major Henry Cautley to design a series of fortifications to protect the country's main ports.
Fort Ballance, Wellington's main fortification, was built by the Armed Constabulary, day labourers and prison inmates. Erected on the former site of Te Mahanga Pa the fort was named after the then Minister of Defence, John Ballance [1839-1893]. In the event of war Fort Ballance was to prevent enemy ships entering the inner harbour and provide covering fire for the minefield between Gordon Point and Ward Island. Supported by positions at Kau Point and Point Halswell, when fully armed, Fort Ballance had more guns than any other fort in New Zealand.
The flood defence at Kessingland - we were chatting to some locals. Around 40 years ago, the sea used to come right up to it. Now it's so far away, old bits of staircarpet have been considerately laid to save poor old Ki's feet from the shingle! And this is only a couple of miles up the coast from Covehithe, where the sea is taking land away at a terrific rate
Fortress Fermont, situated east of Longuyon, France, is part of the defences of the Maginot Line. The fortress has been constructed between 1931 and 1936 and its purpose was to prevent the Germans from invading France after they did so in the First World War. It constitutes a complex that stretches over more than two kilometres of subterranean corridors and occupies a surface of 27 hectares. In the Second World War only one French soldier has been killed in Fortress Fermont and that happened because of an accidental hit through one of the loop-holes.
The lifting cupolas are the characterizing aspect. Those are cupolas with various types of artillery that only become visible when raised. As long as the cupolas are in the down position and equal with the surrounding surface, they are barely distinguishable from their surroundings. On the surface, you will discover the other combat blocks, including the 75 turret of block 1, and learn how the Fermont structure, attacked from the rear on June 21, 1940, resisted all German assaults and held out until the armistice.
All of the galleries of the Ouvrage are located at an average level of 30 m below ground, access is possible by stairs or by 6 freight elevators, two of which were designed to receive equipment and ammunition. The main gallery, approximately 1 km long, is equipped with a trolley and a 60 cm track where locotractors run, powered by 600 volt direct current, produced on site by a power plant equipped with four 225 hp generators. Captain AUBERT and the Fermont crew left the structure on June 27, 1940 in front of a German military detachment.
Fermont is also, in front of the Munitions entrance, the outdoor museum which contains most of the equipment used on the Maginot line. There are notably three artillery turrets from the Brehain structure which are the only ones in France to be presented to the public in this way, and two turrets recovered from Fort Molvange, one of 75.32 and a twin machine gun turret