EAW009062 ENGLAND (1947). Garrison Point Fort, Sheerness Docks and Blue Town, Sheerness, 1947
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Title | [EAW009062] Garrison Point Fort, Sheerness Docks and Blue Town, Sheerness, 1947 |
Reference | EAW009062 |
Date | 12-August-1947 |
Link | |
Place name | SHEERNESS |
Parish | |
District | |
Country | ENGLAND |
Easting / Northing | 590904, 175155 |
Longitude / Latitude | 0.74732629331877, 51.44267416491 |
National Grid Reference | TQ909752 |
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Pier partially destroyed to impede its use in the event of an invasion during WW2. |
Kentishman |
Saturday 27th of February 2021 02:53:18 PM |
A European yellow-tailed scorpion (euscorpius flavicaudis) colony has lived in the wall of Sheerness Dockyard for over 150 years and is now thought to number ten to fifteen thousand. They are small - adults are 35–45 mm (1.4–1.8 in) long, with a rarely used, very mild sting, said to be less than the sting of a wasp or bee. This colony is said to be the most northerly of scorpions outside of America.
See, amongst others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euscorpius_flavicaudis and http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2009/07/09/scorpion_sheerness_video_feature.shtml |
Kentishman |
Saturday 27th of February 2021 02:48:45 PM |
Old Barracks |
The Laird |
Monday 27th of August 2018 07:23:25 PM |
New Barracks |
The Laird |
Monday 27th of August 2018 07:22:27 PM |
HMS Cornwallis. Built of teak at Bombay Dockyard in 1813, 74 guns. Fired the last shots of the Anglo-American War in 1814. In 1842 the Treaty of Nanking, ending the war with China, was concluded on her decks. Sunk as a jetty at Sheerness in 1865. Broken up in the early 1960's. |
senusret |
Friday 13th of March 2015 09:39:40 PM |