...or to give it it's proper title, the 'Holy f**king s**t this is epic' Grain Elevator.
After finding the most unassuming but amazing breakfast spot ever where I ate possibly the best toasted bacon and egg breakfast sandwich I have ever eaten I knew that it was going to be a good day.
This...
An Oldie but a goodie.
Be careful what you say to your kids, you may just have to live up to your word, I may have said; in passing "what an experience it would be to stay in the fort overnight, completely cut of from land". Low and behold we try it.
Arrived on the beach in the...
Back in 2009 this was quite a nice little urbex, but now its trashed. At the time I was a new explorer and scared off some weeks previous to this by a scary man who worked there!
2009:
Finally, we wrapped the day up with the good old Water Eaton Grain Silo! This place is amazing and is so...
Grain Tower ...or No 1 The Thames according to the Post Office, although I am not sure how they deliver post to this place!
If you get it wrong on this explore you either have to spend an uncomfortable 12 hours on the structure or get very wet walking back ! Beware !
Every time I have visited...
Again visited with Obscurity and Storm..2nd part of our medway trip and apart frm the tide coming in really fast trying to cut us off from both sides and the causeway having parts missing with rather deep pools mening i had to do stepping stones over them it was another relaxed explore...
Grain fort is one of many forts built along the kent coast mainly during the napoleonic wars of the 1800's, but lots of them were also used as gun emplacements in WW2, and like most of them it's days as a functioning military post were over as the war ended. Grain was actually demolished and...
Explored with misses vanishing days
weird little place great little explore
Hiistory
Grain Dummy Fort was built and then rebuilt in 1905 the fort was prone to subsidence and there was many problems with the construction. the fort has a ditch full of water in front of it but there is no...
A few pics from multiple visits with 12 gauge and solar p
This place is truly massive its so much bigger than i expected the walk out to it via the walkway just builds up the expectations truly one of the best places i have explored.
bit of history Grain tower battery was constructed in 1855...