A fine exploring of the building from the past. Always interesting to follow you through. Thank you! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

@ExploringWithEmAndStu

Ай бұрын

Thanks again Martin.. glad u liked it 😊

The Anti Aircraft Batteries along the SE Kent coast from Deal to Folkestone were British Army Artillery batteries, USA Army Artillery and RAF Regiment Anti Aircraft Artillery batteries, Home Guard did not actually man these along the Kent coast as They were too critical. Well done and Thank you for your efforts. (I'm a Dover Shark by birth)

@ExploringWithEmAndStu

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the information, we'll remember that in our future visits to the area.. glad you liked the video thanks for watching 👍🙂

Just catching up with all your brilliant videos since i discvered the channel.Great to to see that crew room in such good condition and graffiti free! Thanks Em and Stu for braving the elements to shine a light on WW2 history.👍

@ExploringWithEmAndStu

Ай бұрын

It was a great place to explore with so much to see but the weather really was against us that weekend! Glad you enjoyed watching 👍😁

Thank you for another great video.

@ExploringWithEmAndStu

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Kate.. we really appreciate you taking the time to watch 😊👍

The new A20 was built in the 90'snot the 70's. Those windows above the doors are known as borrowed lights used to allow light into corridors.

@ExploringWithEmAndStu

Ай бұрын

Thanks Gazza.. The information we found was quite contradictory, some say it was covered over in the 70s but we've since found out the site where the guns and camp was went on to be quite extensively used by the workers constructing the channel tunnel so I expect it was around then that alot of the military remains were destroyed, and your right, at the time the road still went straight up north instead of heading along the new alignment to the west. Thanks for the additional information and for watching 👍🙂

Class video love it !😊

@ExploringWithEmAndStu

Ай бұрын

Cheers Ben.. looking forward to seeing more from you too! 😁

Thanks 4 The Update ! ( Ex R.N ) Stay Safe 😊

@ExploringWithEmAndStu

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Adrian, we'll be back next week with our explore of the deep level shelter. Thanks for watching 😊👍

The deep shelter is only yards from where you were standing,right by the magazine at the start of the video,easily accessible and worth a visit,the plotting room is open ( it was last time I visited up there) you need 2 people to open the hatch,best attempted on a dry day,as the mud sucks at the metal and makes it nigh on impossible to open.The observation post with the Acro’s holding the roof up is getting worse,before the roof slab snapped,you could feel the whole thing move when you jumped on it,not recommended.

@ExploringWithEmAndStu

Ай бұрын

Yes, like a few of the batteries around here it has a deep level shelter nearby, we'll have our explore of that uploaded next weekend.. The plotting rooms would have been great to take a look at but maybe we'll save that for the drier weather. Shame the site had been left to deteriorated so much before they decided to start trying to save it.. it could be a great place for people to visit with a few information board about, a real asset to the area. Thanks for watching and commenting 😊👍

Great video as always! Well done for fighting the weather.. 😄

@ExploringWithEmAndStu

2 ай бұрын

Yeah to say we didn't have much luck with the weather that weekend would be an understatement! 😄

I'm pretty sure most of these structures would have been in use in the post war national service era. That could explain some of the ad hoc heating area's as in the post war fireplace in the video. In my early 30's I worked with a couple of older guys that did national service very likely posted to these type structures. In the words of one of them who was 30 years older than me at that time. He said they they did the basics on old WWII equipment because the MOD didn't want them getting any glimpse of new technology for obvious reasons. He told me they had would have to shoot shells at a wind sock towed by a light aircraft and one day the pilot dropped the sock and said " fuck this game they nearly shot me down " the pilot refused to go back up. My father did national service soon after WWII ended and he saw it a waste of time with low pay when he could have been earning a lot more in civi street to support his mother.

@ExploringWithEmAndStu

Ай бұрын

There's a hood possibility they were I guess.. let's hope if they bring back National Service they don't have similar practices to back then! Thanks for your comment and information, very interesting 🙂👍

Hi Like your video . I would recommend EDOB wich is a bunker finder and I would also recommend pillbox study group.

@ExploringWithEmAndStu

2 ай бұрын

Yes I have a EDOB website short cut on my phone and am a member of the Pillbox study group already lol.. its a great site! Thanks for watching 👍😊

@WW2_X2

2 ай бұрын

Yeah I thought that you would but I didn’t know if you did or didn’t just to be sure.😊

@ExploringWithEmAndStu

2 ай бұрын

Yes been a member for a couple of years now.. always enjoy receiving their magazine, good value for money for anyone interested in military history 😀

Got to love a nice long educational video😍😍

@ExploringWithEmAndStu

Ай бұрын

Thanks, its been a long time since we made such a long video but this place was just so extensive! Shame we didn't have abit more time and better weather to enjoy looking around. Thanks for watching, your support is always appreciated 😊

There surely will have been search lights there too as you'd not be able to observe much otherwise in the dark?

@ExploringWithEmAndStu

Ай бұрын

It's unusual for batteries not to have had search lights but strangely we didn't see any obvious signs of any there that day nor on any of the old map diagrams we've seen so I'm not too sure to be honest.. Maybe it's something we'll have to do some research about.. 🤔

Isn't it a shame that these historic building that plaid a major part in defending our nation are just left to fall into ruins.

@ExploringWithEmAndStu

Ай бұрын

It's really is.. that's one of the reasons why we're determined to visit as many of them as we can before they are all just piles of forgetting rubble.. fingers crossed this particular one is being looked after abit now. Thanks for watching and commenting 👍😊