Today madmax and I went to finish off where we left off from on a previous explore. http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=23797&highlight=spurn+point
Spurn Point was purchased by the War Department prior to the outbreak of the First World War with the intention of building fortifications to protect the Humber Estuary. A gun battery was duly built at the northern end of the peninsula at Kilnsea (which we covered on our last trip) with a more substantial fort and barracks at the southern tip these were linked by a standard gauge railway line as no roads or tracks existed. At the southern end the railway ran on to a wooden jetty to allow materials to be unloaded from ships. Concrete sea defences were built to protect the fortifications and railway from coastal erosion. The two river forts at Bull and Haile Sands completed the defensive chain protecting the Humber.
The entire site is very overgrown so substantial clothing was required.
Emplacement for WW2 6 pounder gun. There is one the same if you go through the doorway in the picture.
The room between the gun emplacements.
We then wandered through the undergrowth towards the end of the estuary and found a couple of smaller self contained emplacments.
The point where the railway headed out onto the pier.
Inside the bunkers. The sand ingress over the years has almost filled them up so there isnt a great deal to see.
We then had a walk around the tip of Spurn Point without getting too sandblasted It is so desolate there and the wind picks up the sand very easily leaving the stones on mounds (a bit arty but bear with me)
We then headed towards the lighthouse which hasnt seen a lick of paint in quite a few years.
Then headed back home in time for lunch.
Madmax will add his soon.
Spurn Point was purchased by the War Department prior to the outbreak of the First World War with the intention of building fortifications to protect the Humber Estuary. A gun battery was duly built at the northern end of the peninsula at Kilnsea (which we covered on our last trip) with a more substantial fort and barracks at the southern tip these were linked by a standard gauge railway line as no roads or tracks existed. At the southern end the railway ran on to a wooden jetty to allow materials to be unloaded from ships. Concrete sea defences were built to protect the fortifications and railway from coastal erosion. The two river forts at Bull and Haile Sands completed the defensive chain protecting the Humber.
The entire site is very overgrown so substantial clothing was required.
Emplacement for WW2 6 pounder gun. There is one the same if you go through the doorway in the picture.
The room between the gun emplacements.
We then wandered through the undergrowth towards the end of the estuary and found a couple of smaller self contained emplacments.
The point where the railway headed out onto the pier.
Inside the bunkers. The sand ingress over the years has almost filled them up so there isnt a great deal to see.
We then had a walk around the tip of Spurn Point without getting too sandblasted It is so desolate there and the wind picks up the sand very easily leaving the stones on mounds (a bit arty but bear with me)
We then headed towards the lighthouse which hasnt seen a lick of paint in quite a few years.
Then headed back home in time for lunch.
Madmax will add his soon.
