EAW009062 ENGLAND (1947). Garrison Point Fort, Sheerness Docks and Blue Town, Sheerness, 1947

Pier partially destroyed to impede its use in the event of an invasion during WW2.

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

Old Barracks

New Barracks

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.