Cliff marsh - Medway

 Cliffe Mash

Date:   April 2021

Location: cliffe

Public or Abandoned: Public

Demolished:  No

Youtube Video Yes

Living very local to Cliffe and less than 10 mins away I thought I’ll meet up with a good explore friend off mine and have another little nose around the marsh to see what has changed.

The day starts off pretty wired! First, it snowed and then I was sunny but heyho that British weather for you 😅

I know cliffe marsh very well as used to go down there a lot , only thing that has changed is the fact you can no longer get into cliffe fort anymore - ( cliffe fort 2014 & Cliffe fort 2015)
Other that and my feet hurting a bit was an overall good day out mooching around the marsh again

It is said that the ROC post opened in 1961 but closed down 7 years later in 1968, 

it also said that the old kilns backdate to around 1866-6 

pe for the Johnson chamber kiln.

sadly can not find any history on the air-raid shelter so possible to do with the house near by

it said that Cliffe fort was built about the 1860s to help guard the Thames against a sea-born attack - it's one of many forts around the kent shorelines.

the old decoy air-field is said to backdate to 1941-1942

ROC POST

Cement works & Kilms

Salt lane air-raid shelter 

Cliffe fort 

Cliffe Decoy air-field 

Harty Ferry road Air Raid Shelter - Sheppey

 Air-raid Sheppey 

Date:   April 2021

Location: Sherness

Public or Abandoned: Public

Demolished:  No

Youtube Video Yes

The Explore :

Getting down to the bunker was easy any anything like it on a public walking route, the drive down to it was so lovely saw all kinds of nature, we parked up in the carpark and then walked down to the bunker

When exploring the bunker - I scared a pass by who was taking photos off the bunker 😅 I didn’t mean to scare them, just I was coming out the door as they were about to walk in, but we stood chatting for a while.

The bunker itself is very small but very open, so makes me wonder if they're gonna leave it open or gonna close it up because of how public the bunker is.

There is not much to the shelter - it only has one room, and a small escape shaft and the entrance was made out of blast prove.

Bats tower - Toys Hill

 Bat tower

Date:   March 2021

Location: Toys Hill

Public or Abandoned: Public

Demolished:  No

Youtube Video no

on a wet weekend we headed over to toys hill - to a national trust site to check out this cute little tower that have bats hibernaite in - The tower was damged in 1987 and was and old water tower - once it was no good anymore they turned into a place that bats can be safe.

even know you can not access the tower it give you lot of information on the tower.

ZigZag foot parth - Folkstone

 Zigzag footpath 

Date:   March 2021

Location Folkstone

Public or Abandoned: Public

Demolished:  No

Youtube Video no

it is said that the "zigzag " path backdate to 1921 and was a project to help provide for the unemployed 

the walk down the zigzag  is lovely but the walk back up is not well we didnt enjoy the walk back up ,

once your at the bottom of the zigag parth it open up in to a huge contry park style place with a massive play park for the kids and lovly waks along the sea front. 

Martello tower 3 , ROC post site 1 & Coastal defence

              Martello Tower 3 , ROC post site 1 & Coastal defense 

Date:   March 2021

Location Folkstone

Public or Abandoned: Public

Demolished:  No

The roc post back dates to 1961 but closed not long after being opened because it moved location , 

The martello tower is a small round fort that is dotted all over the UK that had two floors in it.

We then headed up to Folkstone to go see Martello tower 3, iv known about this Martello tower for a long time just didn’t know too can walk up to it.

Once we got to the carpark, we got out of the car and made our way up to the Martello tower, unfortunately, the Martello tower was locked up, when exploring around the Martello tower turns out there also a roc post next to it called “ Site 1” but again very sealed up.

The little wonder around that area was nice, I had a quick look on maps and notice there was more to the site than just a Martello tower & roc post there was also a few remains of old costal defense building, One building had been converted into a cost guard watchtower and the other two just sit a little down the pathway

We made our way down to the other two defense buildings, Once was fully sealed up with no way looking in and the second one was a bit graffitied up but open

Time was getting on a bit so we called it a night as it starting to get a bit cold and our little one was tired

Overall was a fun few hours in Folkstone looking at all the Martello tower, Roc post, and Costal defence, and are little one enjoyed it to