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Lived on there for a few months in the late sixties our father was posted to Shoeburyness as he had seven children we lived on the island till we eventually moved to Thorpe Bay.

Hundreds of people have drowned over the centuries on the Broomway . it goes to Foulness Island.

I think you were generous with the two there from the look on your boat 😃

Did you visited Pakistan

Ive spent most my life living in Burnham-on-crouch on the other side of the river to Foulness and can often hear loud bangs that rattle the windows to my house when they are testing things .

What's so special about this place , just seems to be a Museum and a boring village, 🥱🥱

Well done barry

Just a suggestion for your channel, go visit ‘The Strid’ near Bolton. There are already a number of video’s on it, but this one will interest you if you are into danger.

What was the farm called please ?

They can see you

Craggy Island looks quite glamorous next to this baron rock. 😂

Ashes to ashes dust to dust. I hope her Soul goes marching on. Great vid ,Thanks.

i worked at AWRE as it was called back then in the 80s as a contractor working on infrastructure not military. interesting place, especially when you had to under cover when a test was being carried out.

I only ended up on Foulness once about 1960 when a yacht I was delivering ran aground on Foulness Sands. At low tide we walked ashore to make a phone call to get a tow off on the next high tide and were promptly arrested, one of us was left on the sea wall under guard and skipper was taken to the guard hut, questioned and eventually aloud to make the call. We were then told to walk back to the yacht and not come ashore again. We were watched until the launch arrived and towed us up to Burnham on Crouch.

As I grew up in Essex, I always wondered what Foulness was like - now I know a bit of it! There used to be a regular (if not very frequent) bus service out there, but the timetable made clear it was for authorised people (presumably residents and workers/ MOD personnel) only.

I think it is arguable that this is the most dangerous path in England. I think Morecambe bay is far more dangerous due to shifting quicksand and the speed of the tide.

The Old Ways - Robert Macfarlane? Thanks for taking a look for us anyway!

Didn't realise it was MOD area. Just thought it was dangerous cos of incoming tides, disorientation etc. More dangerous than Solway Firth, Morecombe Bay ?

Is it in the book 'The Old Ways'?

Tom Scott did it years ago.

I guarantee u every person who visits this island is being followed or watched

A lot more background information here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foulness_Island

Extremely dangerous place.

I played darts at the Rose Inn in Wakering in the sixties and two of our team worked on Foulness, they used to go out on the mud at low tide to collect the remains of the shells fired during the full tide. So we only saw them every other week. All weathers, they had a rolling work day. I vividly remember one day they came in for a drink after their shift with ice and snow still on their clothes and faces almost blue. They were always cheerful and didn’t seem to care about their working conditions.

Obviously not their turn for the family brain cell. What a couple of prize pillocks. Not only going into areas they were not supposed to, but videoing it and showing the whole world what idiots they are. Unbelievable !!

£22 four beers is it cheap or expensive?

We are going there this weekend (6th). The last time I was there was 40yrs ago, working on a couple of new observation posts. OPX5 and 6. Interesting place to go to. The observation posts were 7 miles from the Landwick Gate. It's a big island. I wonder if the still have all of the old RAF and Navy aircraft there ? They did a lot of work on the Harrier there as well. I think you took a chance wandering off as far as you did. They specifically tell you not to wander around the island.

I was dragged up in Great Wakering, and I never went there. My Dad went to a pub there once or twice. He had a drink problem. He couldn’t get enough of it. One night my parents had a fancy dress party, and he dressed up in a grass skirt, drank most of a bottle of brandy and chased this woman up the road. It looked to me like she wanted it 😂

That gas mask with the large window looks like one for a baby which would be sealed inside

In 1972 the goverment reformed many infantry battalions during the height of the NI troubles. The 3rd battalion of the Royal Green Jackets was the first infantry battalion reformened at Shoeburyness barracks. We often trained on the island and some of the married familes were living in married quarters at he time. Big battalions in the day of 950 men unlike today. Hard times then for us young lads but very memorable at this point in time in our history. Bob

Wildfowling , it’s the shooting of game on the foreshore or in the marshes and creeks , mainly ducks or geese usually for personal consumption but once upon a time people made a living doing this ,

There were 2 pubs, the George and Dragon run by Fred and Relda, and the Kings Head at Courtsend run by John Nichol. John was virtually blind and his wife was very deaf. It was in the old skittle alley built on the side of the cottage, when I knew it.

Things get foul in foulness😅

i go on there 4 or 5 times a year and tbh you have seen more than i ever do

The actual walk on the sands there is the most dangerous in the whole of the UK

The guvnor of the pub published a great book on how they were isolated from the mainland (I know it's still the mainland to all you smart arses out there)

On a different subject - how nice to notice you actually have a car that's RED inside! Why can't you get that on MORE cars? There used to be nice ones, with BLUE inside, too!

The old George and Dragon I used to deliver there back in 70s early 80s for Watneys. The old governor was a first world war pilot and flew out of Southend airport and use to run the old flying club bar probably long gone.

Post office used to be in the greengrocers only place we didn't wear a helmet when delivering cash 😂

It is only a test range used by Quinetic for ammo testing for howitzers.

So many interesting places along the Essex coastline, including, Burnham on Crouch, Heybridge Basin, Northey Island, Mersea Island, Brightlingsea, Wivenhoe, Frinton on Sea and Harwich (from where you can get a small ferry to Felixstowe)

fick as fook

Remember in the Mid -80s, being at Shoeburyness ,hearing the army testing and firing the then, new 122 metre artillery guns on Foulness Island

This is a blast from the past for me. Although l did not live on the island ( l lived in Great Wakering ) l grew up... attended school with many of the children who lived on Foulness...They were bussed into Great Wakering Secondary Modern school once reaching 11 years. Traveling on Foulness Island was far more restricted ,certainly in the fifties and sixties. l don't know when it was opened up more to public access...We, friends and l would pass under the Havengore Creek Bridge. .either to go fishing or sail in the thames Estuary...l suppose the fact it was the AWRE military area saved the Island from being developed more. Lastly, the George and Dragon pub. l cant remember the publicans name now but l do remember he drank a cocktail of whisky and milk !....The small porch entrance at the side was built by me in the mid seventies.(my name and date will be cut into the woodwork)..... .It was a damn noisy place l can tell you... there was battery a short distance away, when fired you could feel the concussion on your ears...Thanks for the short trip of a memory of long ago...Now retired in España....

i lived in Shoeburyness as a young boy/man back in the 80s, the only way you could get on to foulness if you did not live there was to say you were going to the pub

Bladdy hell, that view

Hi mate nice video, im going there in 2 days time, im going to use hop on bus, i want to visit beachy head and birling gap, do you know roughly how much time i need to visit both places? I will have 3 hours is that enough realisticly? Is there a lot of walking from the bus stop?

PC games are better 🤣🤣🤣

Hayling Island sea fishing was good back in 1995 ish off the needles had good fish back then and boat price was good

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