Bowling harbour is located within the village of Bowling Dunbartonshire (Scotland) It was a site of shipbuilding and repair dating back to the late 1700s. The last of the yards were closed in the 1970s. These photographs are of some of the remains of boats that lie wrecked in the harbour. It...
The Road of Remembrance bunker lies midway on the Road of Remembrance, and it was used as a WW2 naval communication centre.
It was originally built with 2 entrances, a number of toilets, and a ventilation room directly above the complex.
There are still the remains of WW2 posters up around the...
This place has intrigued me since I saw it about 4 or 5 years ago, but I had no idea it was derelict until about a year ago - from a distance it looks like it's still in use as it's not in that bad shape.
I'm not sure if this was a control tower of some sort, or merely an observation platform...
After seeing Superwide's previous post viewtopic.php?f=14&t=736&p=5918&hilit=Folkestone+Harbour#p5862 and talking to a couple of work mates who actually worked there and wanted to do a bit of a history of stations display at work. I decided to go and explore it for myself.
So with...
Myself and my friend D60 decided to go and have another look at Folkestone harbour, at least this time I had someone with a decent camera in tow.
A little about the station:
A branch line was built in 1844 leaving the main line at Folkestone Junction and was double tracked ending with a...