EAW039844 ENGLAND (1951). The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co oil refinery under construction, Isle of Grain, from the west, 1951

2ndWW Coast Artillery Battery, e15151.

2ndWW Boom Defence e35053.

2ndWW Sea Fort and CASL.

2ndWW HAA Gun Battery, designation TS11/- (GDA Thames & Medway), e12696.

PILLBOX: e59380

PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22): S0012582

2ndWW single Gun position? 1938 pattern?

2ndWW Pillbox.

2ndWW Pillbox.

2ndWW Pillbox.

2ndWW Pillbox.

2ndWW Pillbox.

Group of hidden oil storage tanks built during World War 2. These connected to the PLUTO pipeline and supplied petrol to the Allied forces after D-Day. See English Heritage Report 21-2013, 'Hoo Peninsula Kent Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project', pages 35 & 36: http://services.english-heritage.org.uk/ResearchReportsPdfs/021_2013WEB.pdf

Spur off the railway branch to Port Victoria, to serve the aerodrome and experimental station.

Observation minefield control tower. An observation minefield was one where the underwater explosive charges were triggered electrically and remotely by human control. They would normally be used in situations where friendly vessels would be allowed access once they had been satisfactorily identified, but enemy vessels would potentially be targets. I remember my Father taking me up to the top of this tower in the early 1960's - I would have been 9 or 10 at the time. See KENT’S TWENTIETH-CENTURY MILITARY AND CIVIL DEFENCES. PART 2 – MEDWAY, By Victor T.C. Smith, pages 179 and 180 (Archaeologia Cantiana - Vol. 131 2011) http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/131-2011/131-09.pdf

The black topped tanks are the Admiralty Fuel Oil Store, established in 1908 when the decision was made to change the Royal Navy from coal to oil fired boilers.

Site of Port Victoria Marine Aircraft Experimental Depot, established in 1915

Site of RNAS / RAF Grain, the Royal Navy's first seaplane base, opened 3rd December 1912.

Grain Spit Martello Tower Battery

Garrison Point Fort Sheerness

Thames sailing barge

Port Victoria Hotel.

Remains of the pier and original station, Port Victoria.

Submarine