Grain Tower Battery I. Only accessible at low tide. During During WW2 this remodelled Martello Tower was manned and had three guns on the roof. The address is “No 1, Thames”
Grain Tower Battery II. Barracks at left. During WW2 the huge chain secured an anti-submarine floating boom across the Medway.
Grain Tower Battery III. A ladder provides access to the structure.
Grain Tower Battery IV. Internal staircase.
Grain Tower Battery V. Shell lift, lower level.
Grain Tower Battery VI. Lookout tower with Grain Power Station beyond.
Grain Tower Battery VII. Shell lift, upper level.
Grain Tower Battery VIII. Main Gun Mounting.
Grain Tower Battery IX. Second gun mounting overlooking the Medway – access to Chatham Docks.
Grain Tower Battery X. Upper lookout, looking seaward.
Grain Power Station.
Grain Power Station, Pylon I.
Grain Power Station, Chinmey.
Grain Power Station, Pylon II.
National Grid’s Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility, the UK’s largest, Grain.
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility, Grain.
Drive Mirror, Kingsnorth.
Pylons from Kingsnorth Power Station.
Wooden spiral staircase from bastion up to main building. Upnor Castle, an Elizabethan artillery fort built 1559-67.
Rochester Castle Keep, built around 1127.
Rochester Cathedral, West front. Built 1079–1238
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Good timing for pictures of the local power stations as Grain and Kingsnorth are both being demolished now
Wow – I had no idea. They look such a permanent feature of the skyline
Morning
How much time did you get on the Battery? Or was it a case of crikey, tides coming in and I’m gonna get my feet wet?
M
Couple of hours, but I went on at the lowest tide
Grain Tower Battery IX. Second gun mounting overlooking the Medway – access to Chatham Docks.
June 1667…the Dutch Fleet enters the Medway. The British fleet in the Medway virtually
defenceless, the Royal Charles quickly captured, and began Van Ghent’s flagship for the day, before being towed across the Channel. Panic in London.
Excellent, thanks for that evocative description of an event I didn’t know about!
Pictures of pylons marching across the countryside, for me, always bring to mind the “War of the Worlds”…..The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one!
true and since the TV drama Southcliffe I always think of that now in these parts too!