Holy smokes OUTSTANDING!!! I give him a lot of credit for going up them steps. I'm Ian your killing me you end the preview with a "oh wow". Ugh I can't wait till next Friday now. Oh and I totally agree with you what you were about to say about the graffiti till you caught yourself. Lol👍🏻
the bit going down those stairs made me feel sick and dizzy I to do not like heights but a fascinating place and wonderful film so looking forward to the next instalment
Makes one wonder just how many towers and bunkers were erected all over Britain during the war! I'm in Vancouver and even we have relics all over the coast - even in the city - from a war that never came to our shores.
I'll tell you the best story that came of it: There are still three searchlight/gun towers slowly weathering away on the shores of Point Grey, the westernmost end of Vancouver. Their wartime assignment was to guard the approaches to the city, presumably opening fire on any subs or saboteurs trying to sneak into the harbour. To this end, the most numerous boats, the local fishing fleet, were required to flash a signal to the south as they headed for their berths at the end of the day. One day, a skipper, perhaps too tired or distracted, neglected to flash the prescribed lights toward the towers. After several semaphored challenges, one tower loaded a practice round and laid a shot across the boat's bow. Unfortunately, the boat being a small target over 2 miles away, the trajectory was so low that the shot skipped off the water and continued into the path of a freighter heading to sea, neatly holing it at the water line near the bow. The freighter captain promptly turned starboard to beach his ship before it sank, and the fishboat operator presumably flashed a hasty recognition signal and headed for the inner harbour. Thus, the only shot ever fired from Vancouver's defenses managed to put an allied freighter out of commission.
I thought about that and I'm not sure whether you can renovate the eroded concrete and how much would need to come off... So yeah I think you'd need a small fortune to renovate it. Also not sure if the owner wants to sell it :)
I've only visited and explored it once a few years ago but I was just spellbound by its ravaged beauty. Part of me would like to live there with all the scenic vantage points and brutal, uncompromising angles. Though it would cost a hell of a lot!
I revisited this on the 16/06/22 last time was 30 years ago...not much has changed apart from a massive amount of rubbish dumped by visitors...Shame it’s an amazing place to visit. More stuff like this down the Medway and out in the Thames...Sail around the Sea forts if you can
An explore filled with courage and thoroughness. I appreciate both. A word from a former Nikon camera repair tech: Dust can get inside the lens and adhere to the lens elements. This will degrade the ssharpness of an image. It can be cleaned out by a competent repair tech. All the best!
Don't worry about going up to the high places hights arent for everyone it takes more bottle to go down into dark flooded building's than most people have. great vid thanks.
Not sure if you been to coalhouse fort in Essex? An amazing place. There is also a an abandoned battery not to far away from the fort not many people know about. It is on private land but the farmer who owns it does grant permission if asked. There's a large network of tunnels and loads of gun loading mechanisms. You'll find plenty of wall markings for room identifications. You'll need plenty of light because it's pitch black even on a sunny day. Can supply grid ref if your interested.
The Battery Observation Post [BOP] tower is the same pattern as the ones at Landguard Fort at Felixstowe. The top room with the shot fall indicator plinth should have a wooden floor. The towers at Landguard used to be easily accessible, and when I worked at the nearby docks, I would quite often take my lunch and eat it at in the top room of one of them, watching the world go by. Sadly, as often happens, a stupid person ruined the free access to the site, by climbing on to the roof of the tower - and falling off. Very soon after that, a large fence enclosed the site, and both towers were put out of the reach of most visitors. The gun pits at Landguard are very similar to the Grain Tower ones. The Grain Tower's battery was an unusual twin six pounder QF [Quick Firing] arrangement, specifically designed to fire on fast moving German E-Boats. The six pounder was presumably the same as the six-pound anti-tank gun that was in common use, and also the same as fitted to Coastal Command Mosquito XVIII 'Tsetse' fighter-bombers, although this, of course, was a magazine fed automatic weapon with a specially made Molins muzzle brake. It was a quite devastatingly powerful weapon. I very much enjoyed all parts of this video. I have been interested in the Grain Tower for several years, having been told about it by a lorry driver, and seeing pictures of it. There's something oddly appealing about it's weird lopsided shape, and it's sheer isolation is actually rather moving, when one thinks of what a hive of activity it must have been, and now it sits alone with a huge sky, the cry of seabirds, and whatever ghosts of the past it contains for company.
love your videos. would do anything to see all of the places about the past war's. i myself am a veteran. you guys ever thing about making somr in the usa. so people can get different view. if i ever come to your country would be honored to see some. good day.
It would be a great place to set up a temp ham radio station. With a ground ran to ocean and a 50-6- foot vertical antenna. Talk a round the world on 50 watts!
hi guys ,just subscribed and think the channel is great but is there any chance of subtitles as a lot of the commentary is lost or i cant make it out,cheers les.
Looks like the metal box wedged between old structure and WW2 addition is the water tank from the top. They probably knocked the wall down to get it out.
Hi guys. Great video. Does anyone have any idea of exactly how low the tide needs to be relative to sea level to get across the causeway? I'm looking at the tide tables and just trying to work out the timings. Thanks.
Thanks chaps, the Martello tower will be standing for many years to come, shame the same can't be said for the later campaign additions, the reinforcing rods in the concrete are all that is holding the place together
As a Geocacher I was just thinking that would make a good spot for a cache with a high D/T rating! Perhaps I'll come over from NI and find it some time
Do you reckon that WWII bunkers/buildings in North Africa would last longer? Though I'm from Tunisia i've never seen one, but I have heard things like these are in good condition.
That friend of yours is a true mate! Encourages you to face your limits but does not force you beyond breaking point! Good man!
Grain tower battery are my favourite episodes great work guys love it
Great Video guys!! Thank you for the mention! Those stairs still make me feel funny, scary stuff. Thanks for bringing me back.
+Geo Paul hiya mate no problem :) is crazy place lol going back again soon so might try and face my fears lol
Holy smokes OUTSTANDING!!! I give him a lot of credit for going up them steps. I'm Ian your killing me you end the preview with a "oh wow". Ugh I can't wait till next Friday now. Oh and I totally agree with you what you were about to say about the graffiti till you caught yourself. Lol👍🏻
That I'm supposed to be *Also Ian*
Great explore guys! I felt giddy when he reached the top, rather someone else than me :)
the bit going down those stairs made me feel sick and dizzy I to do not like heights but a fascinating place and wonderful film so looking forward to the next instalment
You are a new find to me.
Isolation gives time to view.
Excellent stuff guys.
Awesome guys really enjoying this 4 part series. atb from NZ
This is honestly one off the coolest places I've seen. Really good video!
Thanks folk :)
My legs have turned to jelly seeing Chris climb those stairs. Scary!! Keep safe guys.
Great video! Can't wait for part 3.
Fantastic location mates. Very much looking forward to part 3.
I'm getting awful vertigo watching this! Great video, thanks very much!
Fantastic footage! What a cool old place, can't wait to see the next section.
brilliant work fellas,really glad i found your channel,keep up the great work
as always brilliant footage, Chris total respect for showing us the top looking forward to next Friday
great video. The next one looks even more interesting
Thanks, can't wait to see your next video.
Really cool, thanks for sharing the experience! Its really nice that you are preserving this history. I'm really glad I found your channel.
Makes one wonder just how many towers and bunkers were erected all over Britain during the war! I'm in Vancouver and even we have relics all over the coast - even in the city - from a war that never came to our shores.
I'll tell you the best story that came of it:
There are still three searchlight/gun towers slowly weathering away on the shores of Point Grey, the westernmost end of Vancouver. Their wartime assignment was to guard the approaches to the city, presumably opening fire on any subs or saboteurs trying to sneak into the harbour. To this end, the most numerous boats, the local fishing fleet, were required to flash a signal to the south as they headed for their berths at the end of the day.
One day, a skipper, perhaps too tired or distracted, neglected to flash the prescribed lights toward the towers. After several semaphored challenges, one tower loaded a practice round and laid a shot across the boat's bow. Unfortunately, the boat being a small target over 2 miles away, the trajectory was so low that the shot skipped off the water and continued into the path of a freighter heading to sea, neatly holing it at the water line near the bow. The freighter captain promptly turned starboard to beach his ship before it sank, and the fishboat operator presumably flashed a hasty recognition signal and headed for the inner harbour.
Thus, the only shot ever fired from Vancouver's defenses managed to put an allied freighter out of commission.
Fanbleedintastic chaps. I love it.
Brilliant place!
Guessing it needs a big spring tide to access?
Great upload . thx.
That low-tide mud really gives it that post apocalyptic wasteland feel!
IKS speaking of living places, I'm surprised no one has turned that into a home yet... perfect water front property.
I thought about that and I'm not sure whether you can renovate the eroded concrete and how much would need to come off... So yeah I think you'd need a small fortune to renovate it. Also not sure if the owner wants to sell it :)
Another cracking vid. Thanks.
Really enjoyed this and am looking forward to next week
that ending cliff hanger! Great view at the very top!
Great video chaps thanks for sharing 👍
Just recently found your channel. Thoroughly fascinating to watch all of these locations.
Another awesome video. Very interesting indeed cheers lads
Well done great video Gentleman!
Great video really enjoyed it, thank you. 👍
Very brittle concrete!! Courageous Chris!
cheers :-)
Next week looks good, have to see the basement. Loved the video.
thats the best .. love to go there .. this recording just as good as being there. Thanks
Really enjoyed this video mate :)
Awesome place to explore! Great video mate :)
More nice exploring👍
Thanks for checking out our video man. you guys certainly get about! Have you been to Redsands?
Good work lads!
excellent exploration got to say the stairs to the top made me feel giddy
2:00 The cracks on the ceiling are perfect! xD
Dude your friend gave me sweaty palms watching him climb and jumping and all
Great vid and excellent drone footage. Keep up the good work 👍
great explore mate
I love this place so much
I've only visited and explored it once a few years ago but I was just spellbound by its ravaged beauty. Part of me would like to live there with all the scenic vantage points and brutal, uncompromising angles. Though it would cost a hell of a lot!
subscribed man. awsome videos. amazing places and amazing history :) keep up the good work and keep safe guys :)
+Conrad Wright thanks for your support :)
I don't blame you one bit for not going up... Dave is a mad man.
I revisited this on the 16/06/22 last time was 30 years ago...not much has changed apart from a massive amount of rubbish dumped by visitors...Shame it’s an amazing place to visit. More stuff like this down the Medway and out in the Thames...Sail around the Sea forts if you can
An explore filled with courage and thoroughness. I appreciate both. A word from a former Nikon camera repair tech: Dust can get inside the lens and adhere to the lens elements. This will degrade the ssharpness of an image. It can be cleaned out by a competent repair tech. All the best!
great stuff liked part 1 and 2 👍
Great video thanks woo that is really high up
I was dying laughing at the section starting 4:11, "It's not the homebrew, Chris"
Wow I need to go here! Great vid an great history 👍
This awesome thanks for the tour, i must be the only person who would want to renovate this into a house , what an awesome place to live.
A really fascinating place, but I'd not have gone to the top either!.
IKS got dem balls man!
Don't worry about going up to the high places hights arent for everyone it takes more bottle to go down into dark flooded building's than most people have. great vid thanks.
Not sure if you been to coalhouse fort in Essex? An amazing place. There is also a an abandoned battery not to far away from the fort not many people know about. It is on private land but the farmer who owns it does grant permission if asked. There's a large network of tunnels and loads of gun loading mechanisms. You'll find plenty of wall markings for room identifications. You'll need plenty of light because it's pitch black even on a sunny day. Can supply grid ref if your interested.
love your vids 👏
Could you do a video on Tilbury fort? Done footage would be amazing.
So cool
Shame you didn't climb higher Ian,great view,these should be protected
+raymond gilbert thanks :) yeah something should be done with them :)
The Battery Observation Post [BOP] tower is the same pattern as the ones at Landguard Fort at Felixstowe. The top room with the shot fall indicator plinth should have a wooden floor. The towers at Landguard used to be easily accessible, and when I worked at the nearby docks, I would quite often take my lunch and eat it at in the top room of one of them, watching the world go by. Sadly, as often happens, a stupid person ruined the free access to the site, by climbing on to the roof of the tower - and falling off. Very soon after that, a large fence enclosed the site, and both towers were put out of the reach of most visitors. The gun pits at Landguard are very similar to the Grain Tower ones. The Grain Tower's battery was an unusual twin six pounder QF [Quick Firing] arrangement, specifically designed to fire on fast moving German E-Boats. The six pounder was presumably the same as the six-pound anti-tank gun that was in common use, and also the same as fitted to Coastal Command Mosquito XVIII 'Tsetse' fighter-bombers, although this, of course, was a magazine fed automatic weapon with a specially made Molins muzzle brake. It was a quite devastatingly powerful weapon. I very much enjoyed all parts of this video. I have been interested in the Grain Tower for several years, having been told about it by a lorry driver, and seeing pictures of it. There's something oddly appealing about it's weird lopsided shape, and it's sheer isolation is actually rather moving, when one thinks of what a hive of activity it must have been, and now it sits alone with a huge sky, the cry of seabirds, and whatever ghosts of the past it contains for company.
+brianartillery thanks for sharing :) going back again soon :)
Just found your channel last night, kept me up all night. Just subscribed, great content. PS nice beard, just like mine lol
+82shortbox lol many thanks for your support :)
Top Video !!
great vid
Super cool place! Too bad it has been weathered so much. Good job going up, considering your issue with heights.
Nice!
love your videos. would do anything to see all of the places about the past war's. i myself am a veteran. you guys ever thing about making somr in the usa. so people can get different view. if i ever come to your country would be honored to see some. good day.
It would be a great place to set up a temp ham radio station. With a ground ran to ocean and a 50-6- foot vertical antenna. Talk a round the world on 50 watts!
+Lee George lol would make a good place like that :)
Chris it was nice of you to bring your little sister with you exploring, too bad shes scared of heights...
hi guys ,just subscribed and think the channel is great but is there any chance of subtitles as a lot of the commentary is lost or i cant make it out,cheers les.
I've never gone in the basement !! Ps: please do a Sheerness one like Garrison point or the towers
Looks like the metal box wedged between old structure and WW2 addition is the water tank from the top. They probably knocked the wall down to get it out.
surprised the elevator for ordinance is in that good of shape.
+Ghostrider2999 yeah it's one of the best Iv seen too :)
class defense system with ammunition lift !
Hi guys. Great video. Does anyone have any idea of exactly how low the tide needs to be relative to sea level to get across the causeway? I'm looking at the tide tables and just trying to work out the timings. Thanks.
Omg I'm soooooo going there
"It's not the homebrew, Chris."
Haha.
Thanks chaps, the Martello tower will be standing for many years to come, shame the same can't be said for the later campaign additions, the reinforcing rods in the concrete are all that is holding the place together
What an interesting location, though a bit terrifying in a way.. lol.
You and Eric from IV8888 look so similar. Doppelganger confirmed.
I was thinking that also!
How far down does the ammo lift go down
Oh....you guy's are nut's,especially Chris. I had to stop it when he was in the room at the top yanking on those shutter's.
just checking they still worked lol
later part added in ww2,cool place😀
As a Geocacher I was just thinking that would make a good spot for a cache with a high D/T rating! Perhaps I'll come over from NI and find it some time
there is one right at the top of the tower i believe :)
Check out coord.info/GC1DKZ6
I wonder what type of gun/canon was mounted here? I bet the recoil shook the whole facility!
Don't blame you at all for not going to the top. I would be able to get up there just fine. But I wouldn't be able to get down again!
yayyy Chris!
yes that is Sheerness docks
What are the cubicles for, within the concrete next to the chain driven elevator?
+Max “Hawksight” HawkBlues must have stored AA shells or cordite them :)
Ahh, cheers! Love your videos; keep at em'!
80+ years of North Sea erosion - you wouldn't get me in there at all
+jontibloom it's crazy on this place ,I don't trust the director tower
Was that the water tank pushed over the edge
Yeah I think so
Do you reckon that WWII bunkers/buildings in North Africa would last longer? Though I'm from Tunisia i've never seen one, but I have heard things like these are in good condition.
King krule did a music video there!
OK, where the heck is part 3?!?!?!? I am on the edge of my seat
Up now mate been up since 10am
Seen a similar post to this you did from ground level...
Cracks me up built in 1850's still standing strong, all the 20th century add on's falling apart.
I was gettin sweaty watching chris go up there lol i wouldnt go up there either ian