Grain Tower Battery

abandoneduk · Apr 22, 2008

Noticed there was no pictures up of Grain battery tower. Visited here with Manica about 2 months ago (sorry can't remember the date) when we got there we had to wait for the tide to go out only took about 30minutes. After the tide went out we then noticed how far it was. I forgot to take wellys so I got muddy wearing my trainers. There are more pictures on my site. Was a good explore lots to see, hope you enjoy the pictures.

underitall · Apr 22, 2008

Greta pictures, and i like your siter too. Its a fare long way out in the sea aint it, i imagine you checked the tide times, or just kept an eye out, nice...

Maniac · Apr 22, 2008

abandoneduk said:
Noticed there was no pictures up of Grain battery tower. Visited here with Manica. . . .

Come on, get my name right :lol:

It was end of March we were there, so not as long as you think! We were lucky with the tide, it was just going out when we arrived. So while we waited, we went for a walk to see if we could find the remains of Grain Fort, which was, as we expected, buried

and we checked out the dummy battery as well, which was, well an empty concrete shell.

This place is empty, but it's worth a look owing to it's uniqueness. Here's a couple of my pics from the day;

The shell lifting gear is still in place, here's the top. . . .

Here's the bottom.

And one looking down at the gun emplacement from the top of the observation tower.

It was nice and sunny when we started walking out there, within half an hour of getting there the weather had turned and it was blowing a gale and lashing down with rain, but we had no choise but to leave and walk the half mile back to shore, as the tide was coming in, bugger!

Foxylady · Apr 27, 2008

This is interesting! Not heard of this place before. Any history/info about it? Like the shell lifting gear.

Maniac · Apr 27, 2008

There is a very detailed writeup on SubBrit here; http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/g/Grain Tower/index.shtml

Maniac.

Neosea · Apr 27, 2008

It's a cool explore, thanks for the info

Urban Mole · Apr 27, 2008

Ive seen reports on this before, and looks like a great place, one of the many Id like to see before I die...

abandoneduk · Apr 2, 2009

i'll get it right one day Maniac :lol:

DigitalNoise · Apr 3, 2009

I did it a couple of months ago...
here

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