South Hook fort was built between 1859 and 1865 as a result of the proposals of the 1858 Comittee, consisting of a 2 storey horseshoe shaped barracks with four foot thick walls behind a 20 gun battery facing out to sea.
It was used in 1886 during the "Milford haven experiment" as part of a...
On a freezing cold Tuesday evening, I picked up Captain Slow and Dangerous Dave from Tescos and headed off west to Pembrokeshire to visit a site that I've wanted to see for ages.
There's not much history on the internet about this one, so after some digging around, here goes nothing.
Milford...
Hood_mad saw this one on one of his drives and rang Dangerous Dave (BB) and Me to meet him there. I managed to trace the location to this report from subbrit...
The subject line is a bit vague as the owners were spot on with us and asked us not to put the location out there.
If this report tickles your fancy and you would like to visit, drop me a PM and I'll give you Tims mobile number.
The best spot in the site (the room with the drawings / maps) is...
On the way down to Pembroke Dock for the day, hood_mad and I stopped off near Carew Airfield to have a look at the radar protection site the other side of the main road.
Inside one of the little bunkers.
The flooded one.
A small explore, but the little...
I've passed this place so many times and never stopped, myself, hood_mad and mum were driving about and thought we'd stop.
We're glad we did.
We'd finished looking at the pill-box and I spotted some railings on the edge of the field.
hood looked over the edge and saw an...