Stiffleaf's photos with the keyword: cliffe fort

cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 122
view west along the south side of the 1860s fort
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 132
WWII anti aircraft battery spotting and control tower on top of the walls of c19 cliffe fort, the heap of gravel blocking the original main eastern entrance.
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 119
reflections of the south side of the fort built in 1861-70. malaria and sinking foundations were major problems, and the fort is permanently flooded under one to two foot of water nowadays.
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 1 238
flooded interior of the 1860s fort, corridor in the south block which housed 300 officers and men. you'd need waders not wellies in here, as it's about 3 foot deep in places. also a torch 'cos there's lots of shell hoist holes and collapses floors to watch for. someone is supposed to have died exploring this in the '80s, and it's not got any safer.
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 136
barracks on the south side of the fort built in the 1860s
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 1 146
flooded interior of the east block of the 1860s fort
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 106
flooded parade ground of the fort built in 1861-70, with the gun emplacements that originally overlooked the thames, buried in earth along the river frontage during WWII to lower the fort's profile.
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 133
WWII anti aircraft battery spotting and control tower on top of the walls of cliffe fort, which was built to control the thames in the 1860s
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 140
gun embrasures at the 1860s fort overlook the original main entrance.
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 108
flooded parade ground of the fort built in 1861-70, seen through the blocked entrance
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 118
view west along the south side of the 1860s fort
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 133
flooded interior of the 1860s fort, probably loos
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 130
barracks on the south side of the fort built in the 1860s
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 138
ww2 anti aircraft gunnery control tower on top of cliffe fort
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 124
ww2 anti aircraft gunnery control tower on top of cliffe fort
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 329
1890 torpedo launch slipway next to cliffe fort, the first example of a guided missile system in the world controlled from the roof of the fort to attack ships in the river estuary. the torpedo was powered and guided by two long rotating wires attached to its propellers, which sounds rather heath robinson to me but apparently worked well enough to be state of the art for about 30 years.
cliffe fort, kent

cliffe fort, kent

Stiffleaf
18 May 2014 137
1890 torpedo launch slipway next to cliffe fort, the first example of a guided missile system in the world controlled from the roof of the fort to attack ships in the river estuary.