Dover's Abandoned Coastal WW2 Defences
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Lydden Spout guns were upgraded later, I didn't see that till after uploaded.
"Lydden Spout Battery was later upgraded to Mark XXIV guns."
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34:10 Chis farts, Ian tries to ignore it .. lol
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I love finding the location of you guys on google maps and see where you are investigating
LOVE your videos folks - the witty banter and the amazing facts - what more do you need!
Great footage lads thank you, my Sky subscription is hanging on by a thread with watching channels like yours and other stuff, anyone else feeling the same lately??
The scar of the train track at 26 mins in is from the sidings put in for the delivery of materials for the Tunnel construction.
Samphire Hoe was created with the earth,rock etc removed from the channel tunnel,and the railway line is the main line from Margate ,via Ramsgate ,Dover,Folkestone Ashford etc. Shakespear beach is between there and Dover.
Look like cable ducts. Inspection pits maybe.. also they would maybe aid in pulling through of updates or new cables. Just putting it out there... Also I used shoot at Lydden spout whilst training at Shorncliffe back in the 70,s.. great content as usual folks..
Amazing videos as always very knowledgeable
That looks like a perfect explore for a nice summers day.
Keep the good work up, better times are on the horizon.
You should visit the old Brean Down Fort near Burnham-on-sea, great walk to the top of the hill then down to the fort itself, some nice history there and great views
Now that does look interesting
A mobile Bofors 40mm AA gun position. Gun is backed into position by gun Tractor and set up to operate.
Looks to have been a rail link to the battery, (ammunition deliverys most likely), most rail lines have those access points along beside them, poles above would maybe carry phone lines etc.
It would be good if the National Trust restored at least one BOP to original or even safe condition, as a tourist attraction, from where people could enjoy that spectacular view in relative safety, and, like the tower on Samphire Hoe, below, it could carry information boards, etc.
Another great explore chaps, Very enjoyable.
the repair at 18.00 is more like the farmer doing it to keep the hay dry
as for the paint the old saying if it moves salute it if dose not move paint it
going through that hole was like the Krypton Factor. All you had to do was stak the hay bales like a steep and in you go. Lol...Love the show boys😎
As it was an early war production rangefinder, Steel shutters added later in the war for strafing and shrapnel Protection. Most later produced rangefinder bunkers had the roof slab and front projecting much further out to give angled protection from aircraft fire.
That's not ventilation for the tunnel, it's cooling. There are 40 refrigeration units on the Shakespeare cliff side and 30 on the French side. (google earth). The French provide the ventilation with a giant fan that pumps air into the service tunnel that vents it into the running tunnels. The deal done is the French do the ventilation and the English do more cooling so both sides share equal running costs.
Another entertaining and informative video! Thanks folks!
The second bunker visited appears to be an early fully manual rangefinder site with an early rangefinder table/mount.
Another great video. Lots of Qs to answer.
Being an OP for the guns the three pillars would have supported a concrete table thus mounted a large telescope on a semi circular rail for fixing bearings on visual targets. Pendennis Castle in Cornwall has a restored gun battery OP with all of this set up. Check English Heritage Pendennis Castle Half moon battery. Great video .
Really love your vids and really injoy history
Great video guys sad to see all that hey which is now short supply
Another excellent explore, folks!
Get yourself up to Heugh battery in Hartlepool some time in the future. The only coastal battery in the UK to see action in WW1 with 3 German battle cruisers!
1st beam, first building, 'H' beam had maker's name rolled into it, you missed it.
Interesting video guys the building are in pretty good condition apart from the leaning walls.
After seeing what you found with that pillbox, it is similar to one's here in Australia that were retrofitted with a targetting Radar used in conjunction with mk1 eyeball binocular rangefinder (That's what the triangular concrete plinth is for in the front of the pillbox facing out to sea.)
The radar would've been Mounted on a short square frame with the bottom of the antenna just above the rangefinder section that pokes up. Just enough to have the radiating part of the search beam clear of obstructions and metalwork.
Ian Chris is very energetic looks like he's really been on the bench press jumped right up there and Ian no hat this is different IKS kinda Secret Vaultise like nothing wrong with that great knowledgeable fella nod of course 😉 👍
Wish u done more history about the romans also
Brilliant vid again chaps, more please. i find it amazing that our countries history is left to rack and ruin like this, especially when it was so important then... so much History but not enough seen.....
Construction plans should be available from the National Archives or IWM.
The Concrete plinths are for Watkin range or position finders, the instruments were set firmley in position & electronically transmitted the information to plotting rooms & the guns. See www.victorianforts.co.uk/CoastDefence2.htm for pictures & an explanation
love a good coastal battery!
J M
I never really understand the point of camouflaging these defences really. Any manmade structure with straight lines stands out from the air like a sore thumb, plus especially in this case, the locations are so obvious anyway. I doubt very much the axis wouldn't have known they where there, even if they were just guessing! Maybe it might help at a point in time, at a local level for the Luftwaffe pilot for example? Plus radio masts, I mean what a giveaway! I always think the same about the Regional Seat of Government nuclear bunkers, supposedly secret, but with a huge great mast on top of all of them, or very nearby, usually in the middle of nowhere. I bet both sides in the cold war new exactly where each others hiding places where, both thinking that they don't, and it's not like there wasn't any technology and that, especially later on. Very interesting vid as always guys, many thanks.
Concrete block buildings would have been cheaper and quicker to construct. With less mortar joints and beds making it stronger against small arms fire etc..probably later edition as technology moved on..
You guys need a trip across the pond to visit Long Island and Camp Hero at Montauk point. Just a 3ish hour ride east of my house
Cabling from rangefinder to plotting table electronics either local or back to battery plotting room.
"If you're looking for shipwrecks they're all down there." ... no shit, Sherlock. lol.
to me they seem like soap pits, and the pipes would be vents to stop transmission of gasses
i honelstly dont know but thats what they seem like
AWESOME AREA OF DEFENSIVE AND OBSERVATION POSITIONS , THAT MUST BE DRAIN TILE IN THE BEGINNING AND WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT TO SEE THE GUN POSITIONS ALONG WITH THE PLOTTING ROOMS TOO LOL 😆😆 SHIPWRECKS DOWN IN THE CHANNEL AND NOT ON THE CLIFFS REALLY WHATA GOOF , WHATA VIEW N HISTORY BROTHER 🤘🤘
Are you sure those "Drainage pits" aren't the cabling and distribution points for multiple command detonated lines of foo gas canisters/mines along the easiest attack approach to the battery site?
You wouldn't build elaborate drains along a ridge line like that as the water would drain down to the bottom of the hill anyway
Wasn't there a weapons cache for resistance fighters if the Germans invaded, like fifth colummn..? Unearthed when the new A20 road was being built ?? I think it was close to that bunker.
Suspect it is a cable duct to feed an aerial array.
The front entries for feeder cables.
it looks like a soap pit to me, but could very well be an old cable route, seems odd that it would need to be vented though
Have you visited the Lydden Spout Battery in Kent , chaps ??????
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@@IKS-Exploration ok mate. Just letting you know.
You should really get footwear for the task bro 🤣 Was this filmed last summer?
Toe 'tectors a must for pyracantha and the like.
Coat rack or rifle rack?
Look a bit like d-day site normandie,
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