EAW039859 ENGLAND (1951). The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co oil refinery under construction, Isle of Grain, from the south, 1951

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EAW039859
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EAW048527
  278° 96m
EAW048513
  251° 129m
EAW034852
  219° 201m
EAW048564
  322° 206m
EAW039858
  127° 228m
EAW048565
  346° 229m
EAW034851
  220° 232m
EAW048517
  179° 238m
EAW048566
  251° 241m
EAW048514
  196° 243m
EAW045764
  278° 246m
EAW048563
  241° 277m
EAW039856
  32° 287m
EAW045778
  324° 288m
EAW045777
  325° 295m

Manylion

Pennawd [EAW039859] The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co oil refinery under construction, Isle of Grain, from the south, 1951
Cyfeirnod EAW039859
Dyddiad 20-August-1951
Dolen
Enw lle ISLE OF GRAIN
Plwyf ISLE OF GRAIN
Ardal
Gwlad ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 587319, 175261
Hydred / Lledred 0.6958521270204, 51.444823364194
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol TQ873753

Pinnau

2ndWW Isle of Grain PSD, Admiralty Fuel Depot.

redmist
Monday 24th of January 2022 10:59:57 PM
2ndWW pillbox, S0012583.

redmist
Monday 24th of January 2022 10:59:27 PM
Site of QF P-series fire decoy intended to lure German bombers away from oil storage facilities on the Medway. Installed during 1940/41. Not considered by Ms Small to have been effective, given the few bomb craters in evidence. See 'SECOND WORLD WAR OIL QF BOMBING DECOY ALLHALLOWS, MEDWAY, KENT' by Fiona Small English Heritage - Research Report Series no. 8-2014 See also https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4648275,0.6721867,297m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

Kentishman
Saturday 23rd of July 2016 10:36:42 AM
Wharf constructed for WD barge Gog. Gog was towed by WD steam tug Katherine and from 1930 by Diesel tug Katherine II and brought heavy artillery and naval guns direct from Woolwich Arsenal for test and evaluation. See: http://www.canvey.org/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=403 for further information and photographs of barge at Shoeburyness. This wharf at Yantlet Creek was designed to allow the travelling gantry to pass above the barge and lift its contents straight out. See English Heritage report 39-2013.

Kentishman
Thursday 21st of July 2016 08:32:02 AM
This looks like 'Nelson', the 200 ton lift travelling gantry built in 1919 by Cowan and Sheldon. In the English Heritage Report 39-2013, page 60, Edgeworth states that this gantry was removed in 1948 while this photo is dated 1951. In this view, the gantry is near the wharf on the left. However, see EAW045775 dated 12 Aug 1952 where it has moved a distance to the right, much closer to the shorter velocity screen masts. Then in EAW048562 / 3 & 66, all dated 31 March 1953, the gantry is back near the wharf. It looks pretty certain that the gantry was not removed in 1948 and was still used after that date.

Kentishman
Thursday 21st of July 2016 08:30:44 AM
Shell store.

Kentishman
Friday 26th of June 2015 04:40:00 PM

Kentishman
Friday 26th of June 2015 04:39:04 PM
Gun emplacement

Kentishman
Friday 26th of June 2015 04:25:51 PM
Velocity Room

Kentishman
Friday 26th of June 2015 03:46:08 PM
Electric Power House

Kentishman
Friday 26th of June 2015 03:45:05 PM
Officers' quarters.

Kentishman
Friday 26th of June 2015 03:41:39 PM
Barracks and NCOs' rooms

Kentishman
Friday 26th of June 2015 03:40:02 PM
Institute and Sergeants' Mess

Kentishman
Friday 26th of June 2015 03:38:10 PM
Railway firing points. These were aligned southwest to northeast, parallel to the main firing range and the Grain Range Line, see English Heritage Report 39-2015.

Kentishman
Friday 26th of June 2015 03:28:02 PM
Guardhouse and entrance barrier

Kentishman
Friday 26th of June 2015 03:15:19 PM
Terrace of 4 houses known as the Police Cottages. Built early 1930s for site security staff. (English Heritage Report 39-2013)

Kentishman
Friday 26th of June 2015 03:13:11 PM
Velocity screen masts, the shorter pair were 110 feet tall, the other pair were 210 feet tall. The distance between the two sets was 79 metres. Between each pair of masts a square frame of about 6 to 8 feet per side (my own very rough estimation from photo on page 55 of English Heritage Report 39-2013) was suspended, precisely aligned with the gun that was being tested. When fired, the shell would pass through each frame which was covered with a fine metal mesh. The time between the first and second mesh being perforated was measured and from this the velocity of the shell at firing could be calculated. (I assume that the time of impact on Maplin sands was also measured so that average and terminal velocities could also be calculated.)

Kentishman
Friday 26th of June 2015 02:40:24 PM
Grain Island Firing Point / Yantlet Battery. Per Matt Edgeworth of English Heritage in his report 'Grain Island Firing Point, Yantlet Creek, Isle of Grain, Medway. Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment' Research Report Series 39-2013 (http://services.english-heritage.org.uk/ResearchReportsPdfs/039_2013WEB.pdf) This installation was built for the testing and evaluation of long range guns and formed part of the Shoeburyness ranges in Essex. This provided a firing corridor from Grain to the Maplin Sands that was 17 miles (27km) in length and enabled fired shells to be recovered from the sands for close examination. The Grain site was acquired by the Admiralty in 1917 and was initially operational from 1919. Use for artillery testing ceased during the 1950s as: the range of heavy guns exceeded 17 miles; and guided missiles replaced long range artillery. The site was then used as a demolition range. The report explains very well how the site was laid out and used and is well illustrated with some very clear photographs.

Kentishman
Friday 26th of June 2015 12:33:43 PM
What are these four masts for? The cluster of two very tall and two about two thirds the height, look like Chain Home radar masts. However, Chain Home masts were two groups of three each, the taller masts (350 feet) being the transmitters and the shorter masts (240 feet) the receivers. Also, from an initial search, I can't find any reference to there being a Chain Home radar station at Grain. The masts are the wrong design for power transmission lines, plus the Grain power station had not been built and there are no other pylons in the vicinity. Finally, the details state that the photo was taken from the south: I think that the axis is more south east to north west.

Kentishman
Thursday 25th of June 2015 11:22:00 AM
I've had a brief look at "Radar- A Wartime Miracle by Colin Latham & Anne Stobbs" Alan Sutton 1997. I can also find no reference to a Chain Home station at Grain. The mystery remains.

Class31
Thursday 25th of June 2015 12:22:03 PM
Bases of the masts are marked on the 1968 OS on Old Maps but they are not marked on the 1961 OS on the same website.

Class31
Thursday 25th of June 2015 12:32:37 PM
Mystery solved! These masts were part of the Grain Island Firing Point, also known as Yantlet Battery. They were constructed to measure the projectile speed of long range artillery and naval guns. See English Heritage Research Report 39-2013 by Matt Edgeworth: 'Grain Island Firing Point, Yantlet Creek, Isle of Grain, Medway. Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment.'

Kentishman
Friday 26th of June 2015 11:12:46 AM
Canvey Island, Essex

Kentishman
Thursday 25th of June 2015 11:10:55 AM
Hamshill Fleet, Isle of Grain

Kentishman
Thursday 25th of June 2015 10:36:20 AM
Yantlet Creek, Isle of Grain

Kentishman
Thursday 25th of June 2015 10:16:57 AM
River Thames

Kentishman
Thursday 25th of June 2015 10:15:38 AM

Cyfraniadau Grŵp

See the map on page 7 of the English Heritage Research Report 39-2013 ( http://services.english-heritage.org.uk/ResearchReportsPdfs/039_2013WEB.pdf )for the locations of six Diver box light anti-aircraft batteries and a pillbox at Rosecourt Barn.



Operation Diver took place between June and September 1944. Diver was the code name for the German V1 flying bomb and Operation Diver was the co-ordinated raft of measures to overcome the threat that the V1s / Doodlebugs posed. Up to this point in the war, anti-aircraft batteries were fixed and permanent. Under Diver, temporary, mobile batteries were set up and moved to the areas of perceived threat. As a consequence, very little evidence remains to show where these were. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Diver#End_of_operations and http://services.english-heritage.org.uk/ResearchReportsPdfs/021_2013WEB.pdf

Kentishman
Saturday 23rd of July 2016 10:53:07 AM
This image also shows the site of the QF fire decoy installed during 1940/41 the lure German bombers away from the oil storage facilities on the Medway. This is now one of only two such sites that remain in the country. See

SECOND WORLD WAR

OIL QF BOMBING DECOY

ALLHALLOWS, MEDWAY, KENT by Fiona Small

RESEARCH REPORT SERIES no. 8-2014

English Heritage

Kentishman
Saturday 23rd of July 2016 10:53:07 AM