St Athan’s Holiday Village
Seventeen miles west of Cardiff is the small village of St Athan’s, where this derelict village remains off of an unassuming country road. The idea …
SS Richard Montgomery Wreck
The SS Richard Montgomery was a US Liberty Ship, constructed in 1943. In 1944 it was part of a convoy delivering explosives with 7,000 tonnes …
Red Sands Seaforts
At the outbreak of World War II, the Port of London was the busiest port in the world. As such, a large proportion of supplies …
Wells Firework Factory
Now an overgrown brownfield site, this was once the factory for one of the leading fireworks companies in the whole of the UK. Joseph Wells …
Tilbury Fort
Tilbury Fort has been defending London from the threat of invasion for over 500 years. Since the fort was built in 1539, under the rein …
Dunton Plotlands Remains
The plotlands was an area of natural land available for rent/purchase as holiday spots, popular with Londoners who wanted to escape to the countryside. No …
Kelvedon Hatch R4 ROTOR Bunker & RGHQ
Above the surface it looks like a normal country cottage, but beneath the building lies something completely different – a nuclear bunker. The only clue …
Mulberry Harbour, Thames Estuary
After checking out Southend’s wartime sea-defenses, we then had a look from the seawall at the ‘Mulberry Harbour’ back in 2011, split in half and …
Chipping Ongar ROC Post
This Royal Observer Corps observation post bunker was constructed in 1959 and closed at the end of the Cold War in 1991. Its relatively good …
Maidstone Library Tower
In April 1959 proposals were revealed for a new County Library premises, which had been approved by the council but needed funding of £144,000 plus …