Great Britain Grain Tower - Isle of Grain - (Visited March 2012) May 2013

[The Urban Adventurer]

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 this place the weather has been crap ! So on this occasion and after defrosting various parts of my body over a period of days I added a little processing to these pics to try and make them a little more dramatic !

Cheers for looking

There is an excellent bit of history here for those of a more historical persuasion http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/g/grain_tower/index.shtml



The beast in all its glory



The modern extension



the old bit !



the view of the new extension from the roof of the old..



the gun placement



the way up is easier than the way down..that handrail was a bit loose !



the view across the water to some power station..sadly not abandoned !



A view of the tower



a hole in the wall..

That's it..thanks for looking..if you go here..check the tides ! oh and wear stout footwear !

 

[skeleton key]

Nice shots and cool share

Loving the roof top shot



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[Silent Night]

Love the ''view of the tower'' shot, Looks like a lovely mooch if the weather was better

 

[Scattergun]

Oooh this looks ace, lovely shots there mate. Reminds me of an old coastal defence facility

 

[The Urban Adventurer]

Oooh this looks ace, lovely shots there mate. Reminds me of an old coastal defence facility

yer it is a good one..not that much when you get there but worth it on a dry day..there is also the old underground Grain Fort as well..

 

[Shush]

Really like the hole in the wall, smashing pics chap

 

[Nelly]

Love the look of this place, I know that Tank went there last year and took his mini tanks, they stayed there for the night and waited for the morning low tide

 

[seaside_rambler]

Looks good does this, nice pics!

 

[The Urban Adventurer]

Love the look of this place, I know that Tank went there last year and took his mini tanks, they stayed there for the night and waited for the morning low tide

really! they were brave !

 

[Nelly]

really! they were brave !

Have you ever seen Tank?, he would just tell the tide to fuck off and it would

 

[Nelly]

I may lose my "Modship" for posting a DP link here, but its an interesting report so I'll risk it

"Tanks family sleepover at Grain............"

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=20176#.UaBklrXqmgY

 

[Scattergun]

yer it is a good one..not that much when you get there but worth it on a dry day..there is also the old underground Grain Fort as well..

I reckon a nice wee mooch if the suns out and you've some time on your hands or just fancy getting outdoors The underground grain fort sounds cool too, is it quite big?

 

[SuZyQue]

Fantastic pics and thanks for sharing that link nelly, now thats my kinda place surrounded by the sea heaven, great stuff.

 

[Stussy]

Cracking looking place, great pics!