I understand why they brick up old places or fill them with concrete or rocks. But it's sad that the opportunity to visit and feel the history is lost. Really appreciate you taking us along to see all these cool underground / dilapidated places. In a few decades or centuries so many of them will be gone. Having HQ video and walkthrough explanations might be the only things left (not counting dusty documents about these places that are in archives somewhere).
The time I got notified about this video, there was just ONE watch registered, most probably unfinished, with me and that person enjoying this at the same time. Love to go back to those honest times when videos had actually been uploaded when you were notified about it. Had to totally put aside what I was watching at the moment what feels so unique now.
I only watched this video to count the number of times you said OKAY but it turned out to be one of my favourite you have done so far, really looking forward to the next one ... and it was 28
There is a tunnel that goes towards Shorne Fort, we use to walk along it for miles, was full of water then they eventually filled the entrance in at Cliffe Fort.
11:06 Could the iron tube & large hole be the remains of the retractable OP for the Brennan torpedo installed in one of the 9" gun magazines 15:30 Iron brackets either side of the embrasure & the heavy rails above would have supported woven rope mantlets which were to reduce splinters entering the casemate if an enemy ship managed to hit near the embrasure. The guns in the casemates would have been RML's [rifled muzzle loading] recoiling into the casemate far enough to be loaded then run out to fire. In an 11 inch RML gun cartridges containing between 50 & 85 lbs of gunpowder depending upon type of shell & whether it was a 'full' or 'battering' charge. They fired ‘Common shell’ weighing 536 lbs or ‘Palliser shell’ [early armour piercing] containing a 6 lb 7 oz bursting charge & weighing 535 lbs 15 oz in all.
If you ever visit Hurst Castle (the Fort on Hurst Spit, open to the public) down at Milford On Sea, you can see guns in place with the woven shrapnel protection. Tudor bastion, with artillery fort built around it, and WW2 add-ons... Well worth a visit.
17:15 - That 'T' shaped piece of metal looks like a lamp bracket, to hang oil lamps from, when the fort was new. A fascinating site, indeed. And closed off as someone fell. Same story for Landguard Fort at Felixstowe. Great site, dating from the time of Henry VIII, and constantly updated. It has two WW2 B.O.P. towers, that were great to climb, very solid - when I worked at Felixstowe Docks, I often ate my lunch at the top of one, and watched the world go by. Then a stupid kid, showing off, climbed on to the roof of one of the towers, about sixty five feet up, and fell off. The site was immediately sealed, and basically all the really interesting bits, like the seaward batteries, and magazines, were 'sanitized', with stairway removal to deter access, and welding up of doorways. Thank you very much, show off idiot.
Amazing to see Cliffe Fort all fenced up. Haven't been down there for about 20 years. We used to play in them when we were kids back in the 60's That was before "Health and Safety" took all the fun out of things :-(
I used to play in Cliffe Fort as a youth, i used to live in Cliffe Woods. i can see some of my old graffiti on the walls. We used to ride our motocross bikes in the Fort, never had fences around it back in those days.
And yet another amazing place that most of us didn't know about - Thanks for making the video. I could just imagine the fort full of military personnel, and wonder just how large a complement of men it would have needed to run it. I really can't wait until we see the lower levels, where the water reaches 'Badger's nadgers'.... lol!
@@SubExploration Sorry haven't seen any pics of the fort in use but these are photos of Officers and NCOs from 1915: www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dkbrown/buffs1.jpg www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dkbrown/buffs2.jpg
Last time I was there it was dry on the ground levels. We found a tunnel that slopped down and got wetter the further in you went. The tunnel just went straight on and my torch couldn't see the end. That was more than 30 years ago though. There were huge flooded areas open to the environment even then. It was just all below ground level. Ahh happy days of old. Out of the other forts of Medway, Bridgewood and Borstal were my favourites for exploring covertly.
Next week’s video we go into all of the flooded bit so you can see. Yes I used to enjoy exploring around Fort Borstal when I was around 13. Unfortunately the current owners down really let people in as I’d love to go in with a camera. Sadly, I never managed to see fort Bridgwood before it was demolished for the bloody post office.
I got into your channel a few days ago. So far I'm hooked. Been going through all of them from new to old. I love them all!! I'm from New York in the United states. You can explore way better places than here.
I'm a vollenteer at a fort at Milford Haven , Chapel bay Fort , it's well worth a look if you're ever in this part of the country , look it up . Lots of other dissused forts etc to explore in the area .
The more modern 'tube' was near certain an ammo lift for the WW2 guns. As for 'tensions' it seems all of Europe had them. Go to Guernsey and see military enplacements on average every 500 metres. Though for probably 500 years of various wars. The Germans went overboard during WW2.
It's a shame the level of dilapidation and vandalization makes it difficult to imagine how it used to look like during its golden days before there were paved roads and cars around... This building is from the haydays of the Victorian era, a really prosperous time for the country of Great Britain. Back in the 1860s the national income per person grew by half due to industrialization and global trade. In America, they fought the civil war and lived through the peak days of the Wild West era. The great Russian writers Tolstoy and Dostoevsky wrote War & Peace and Crime & Punishment. In China, the last imperial dynasty was still in power (Qing China), and the Ottoman Empire was deemed the "sick man of Europe" due to their troubled economy. Dynamite was invented, helium was discovered and Mendeleev came up with the modern periodic table. But, alas, all great men, important buildings and even vast empires fall as the inexorable march of time keeps its stride. This building is now just another broken, old, abandoned and defunct piece of history, riddled with graffiti sprayed by the inhabitants of our dying era.
I am fascinated by these sorts of places. I am puzzled that if a person falls on a mountain and breaks a leg it is almost a badge of honour, yet if the same happens on a man made structure we try to block it off or demolish it. Maybe it hurts more to break a leg on a manmade structure. What is the difference between a trespasser and an explorer? Answer the school they went to.
When I went there I just walked passed the aggregates place and hopped up a 4 foot wall at the corner. Got a pic of me peeing out of the window on the corner that appears to have no roof now (21:57). Go in summer, it's much nicer, loads of dragonflies wtc
Very cool. We dont really have this kind of history in America so thanks for showing us. I dont know how hard it is to find and explore old castles but that would be the coolest
Because Castles are some of the oldest things around, they are often privately owned or in the hands of historic organisations and are open to the public. I grew up living just down the road from a pretty badass castle (Rochester Castle to be exact) so I’ll have to go and do some filming at some point.
Why would 8 people give a thumbs down? That was really good. Places like this come to me in nightmares. What a bruising structure. Trouble with france so how long would that have taken to build? Surely you'd say. "Look, I appreciate we need fortification at this place but it will take ten years to build and fit out, it will cost a fortune in materials and labour and by the time we're done building and manning it we could well be besties with the frogs, so...tent fort anybody?" Also, what's the 'magazine level?"
We used French POW's to build a lot of these old things so that kept the cost down 😂 The magazine level is below the gun emplacement and I were the ammunition and charges would have been stored. You can see it this coming Friday.
@@SubExploration cheers fella. Loving your channel. Literally immersing yourself in the history is compelling. And now i remember that Dartmoor prisin was also built by the french wasn't it? That is one imposing lump too. A truly daunting sight.
Very impressive, the security is military personnel and police from the training facility just along the coast, they use the area for training as well. Also where the hell did you park? If you look across the Thames you see Coalhouse Fort, its in better condition and worth a visit too.
Great fort. Ive done the lower levels, ropes no waders lol.. did take spare trainers but it got to deep and there was slug like things in the water, not leeches but enough to make my pals give up haha.. there use to be a big rope to climb up near the tower at the cement works. Got some wicked pics in an album. Spent the night there a couple of times exploring parties off our wallies. Probably not the best idea now but was a good one then. haha.. there is i think 2 smaller ones either side of that one, one was a fort type and ones a fortish building.
@@SubExploration haha happy days... me and my mates see some crazy stuff one nite there, we was a bit worse for wear shall we say. But we all see the same thing and was dodging it and see each dodging it, Which was weird. I see someone curled up in a corner hiding and filthy dirty then vanish. The other thing was like the place came alive for a couple of seconds and someone went past me on an old bicycle. I dont believe in all that stuff and i did eat some funny biscuits so also could have been that for the last 2 but the one we all see i cant explain so easily. I dodged it and see it head to a friend and he moved to dodge it then another friend and he did the same. We all see the same thing and all interacted the same. It was a black entity, maybe a bloody bat and we all was to licked to focus i dunno but a great story and a great night haha..
@@SubExploration thank you for turning out engaging videos of cracking explores... Would love to be able to tag along, but your videos are the next best thing!
Awesome! Ive been looking forward to seeing this one for some time.....thank you! Surely yoou must be running out of fresh brick/1860's forts to explore- at least without needing a boat :v
Well done guys,it's a shame that our heritage is allowed to disintegrate while the new 'owners' profit from the resource and are not compelled to make any effort to keep the site intact.Fascinating to see those casemates and the Brennan torpedo launch area.Many thanks for all your efforts to record this.
That would have made a great tourist attraction. There is a fort like this, not as big, near where I live on a small island “Ship Island” that use to protect the mouth of the Mississippi River from enemy ships. It’s a great place to visit.
Disused kids playground basically, here in the N.E we had sound mirrors and a false hill with a 'farmhouse' half a mile away, the farmhouse and hill were linked by a tunnel but this was always flooded, we gained access by climbing down ventilation shafts, I was around 11 years old at the time, I took my own kids up there in the late nineties after returning to the area as I'd noticed antennas had been positioned on the housings for the vent shafts only to be chased off by security guards, it was a WW2 radar station as far as I can determine. Is that Sergent Bilko with you for protection, I almost didn't spot him in the camo gear.
I actually live in cliffe the village nearby, from what i remember the kid just broke his legs. There are alot of nice historical abandoned buildings on the marsh, including old lime kilns and a munitions factory from WW1
I also lived in the Cliffe area, the kid just broke his legs, no one ever died there. I remember we used to have raves in Cliffe Fort, how times change.
Explored ciffe in the 80s and 90s. Also carried out a archaeological survey. I know Cliffe well.... My uncle was killed at Cliffe fort in WW1. Also the approach road was used as a location in Full metal jacket.
@@SubExploration I know it's very a dangerous place. I've been involved in Military archaeology for 30 years. And even earned a living doing so.. I've been to places which are ruins and hidden beyond belief . But Cliffe is the one I feel least safe going to. Still its a great location.
Wow what an amazing place! Well done guys can't wait for the next video! (love badgers response at the end its usually the other way round you telling him you hate him 😂😂)
Yeah they did. I wouldn’t say easy tho, they didn’t show everything 🤣 They also decided to take the riskiest route ever lol I’m surprised they weren’t caught. I spoke with them after they put the video out. They will let me know if they need any decent local advise the next time they are down in Kent 😉👍
@@SubExploration Steal that shoulder mounted raygun mount and stick a gopro on it ! The predators are too busy channeling Elmer Fudd "hunting the Awien".
Great vid guys love those old t tunnels and forts keep it up love all your vids off to check out IKS new vid next keep it up much love and respect from Maine USA to u all doing this
Can you imagine the noise when the guns fired inside those gun rooms. Blood, snot and other fluids and solids would come out of your body orifices. Greetings from Down Under for a great video, thankyou.
that place its amazing look how thick those walls are..... its a massive place overall never understand why these kinda places just get left to rot after so much work obviously went into making them . just sad at how time just devours everything
Thanks for risking life and limb once more for your fans. There's so much history there just crumbling away.
Indeed there is. This Fridays video is of the flooded underground bits.
Good to see it the day light. Good job Jim!
We go down into the flooded bit next week 👍
I understand why they brick up old places or fill them with concrete or rocks. But it's sad that the opportunity to visit and feel the history is lost. Really appreciate you taking us along to see all these cool underground / dilapidated places. In a few decades or centuries so many of them will be gone. Having HQ video and walkthrough explanations might be the only things left (not counting dusty documents about these places that are in archives somewhere).
This is the sister fort to Coalhouse fort i believe. Coalhouse is a cool place to visit open last sunday of the month . Nice video guys
The time I got notified about this video, there was just ONE watch registered, most probably unfinished, with me and that person enjoying this at the same time. Love to go back to those honest times when videos had actually been uploaded when you were notified about it. Had to totally put aside what I was watching at the moment what feels so unique now.
I only watched this video to count the number of times you said OKAY but it turned out to be one of my favourite you have done so far, really looking forward to the next one ... and it was 28
🤣 ok
That one was awesome! Thanks for sharing.
There is a tunnel that goes towards Shorne Fort, we use to walk along it for miles, was full of water then they eventually filled the entrance in at Cliffe Fort.
Yeah you can see where the tunnel runs but no access these days
I really enjoyed this one - it's fascinating to see how nature reclaims space. Great content as always
11:06 Could the iron tube & large hole be the remains of the retractable OP for the Brennan torpedo installed in one of the 9" gun magazines
15:30 Iron brackets either side of the embrasure & the heavy rails above would have supported woven rope mantlets which were to reduce splinters entering the casemate if an enemy ship managed to hit near the embrasure.
The guns in the casemates would have been RML's [rifled muzzle loading] recoiling into the casemate far enough to be loaded then run out to fire. In an 11 inch RML gun cartridges containing between 50 & 85 lbs of gunpowder depending upon type of shell & whether it was a 'full' or 'battering' charge. They fired ‘Common shell’ weighing 536 lbs or ‘Palliser shell’ [early armour piercing] containing a 6 lb 7 oz bursting charge & weighing 535 lbs 15 oz in all.
Thats a good theory. The large hole is in line with the torpedo rails.
If you ever visit Hurst Castle (the Fort on Hurst Spit, open to the public) down at Milford On Sea, you can see guns in place with the woven shrapnel protection.
Tudor bastion, with artillery fort built around it, and WW2 add-ons...
Well worth a visit.
Nerd
17:15 - That 'T' shaped piece of metal looks like a lamp bracket, to hang oil lamps from, when the fort was new. A fascinating site, indeed. And closed off as someone fell. Same story for Landguard Fort at Felixstowe. Great site, dating from the time of Henry VIII, and constantly updated. It has two WW2 B.O.P. towers, that were great to climb, very solid - when I worked at Felixstowe Docks, I often ate my lunch at the top of one, and watched the world go by. Then a stupid kid, showing off, climbed on to the roof of one of the towers, about sixty five feet up, and fell off. The site was immediately sealed, and basically all the really interesting bits, like the seaward batteries, and magazines, were 'sanitized', with stairway removal to deter access, and welding up of doorways. Thank you very much, show off idiot.
brianartillery did the kid survive
Thanx Simon and Badger. Great video.
Excellent video!! Torpedo rails at the end was v interesting. Keep up the good work - fascinating stuff.
Brilliant, man.
Can't wait for the follow up next week!
Keep up the great work, sir.
Thank you 😉👍
@@SubExploration
I was just watching some of the older vids again when this notification popped up. Haha
Some of the earlier 2-parters.
Thanks Simon and Badger 🍻
man CONGRATZ!
Hard work does pay off!!
Keep up the great vids!
Amazing to see Cliffe Fort all fenced up.
Haven't been down there for about 20 years.
We used to play in them when we were kids back in the 60's
That was before "Health and Safety" took all the fun out of things :-(
Don't get me started on health and safety! 🤣
i personally think this is one ove if not the best one you done so far
59patrickw I totally agree, brilliant video.
Thank you
Great video would have been nice to see that in all it's glory back in the day. Can't wait for part 2 keep up the great work guys.
I got in there about 5/6 years ago and had a good look.
I used to play in Cliffe Fort as a youth, i used to live in Cliffe Woods. i can see some of my old graffiti on the walls. We used to ride our motocross bikes in the Fort, never had fences around it back in those days.
We also used to have acid parties and raves in Cliffe Fort back in the late 80's and early 90's. On acid this place looks even more cool.
People still have parties here ;-)
Cool . . . . can't wait till next installment of this series. Great explore!
Very interesting exploration video. Thanks!
Another awesome video! Would love to visit this place one day
Cant wait for next part.Great stuff as always.
Brilliant location, really hope we are able to visit this one day.. Thanks for sharing it with us 👍
what a lovely place it is a shame it is left to rot
great film as usual
stay safe.
Love the drone footage
Awesome- thanx guys I totaly support your efforts and risk and I am a Big urbex fan. Good Job
Great vid :) jeez three years ago when you went there last.Time sure does fly fast.Great to see you finally got in there.
Thanks mate.
I use to go there quite a bit 25 years ago. No security back then (well not much). Excellent site this one.
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And yet another amazing place that most of us didn't know about - Thanks for making the video.
I could just imagine the fort full of military personnel, and wonder just how large a complement of men it would have needed to run it.
I really can't wait until we see the lower levels, where the water reaches 'Badger's nadgers'.... lol!
There were quarters for 300 but it was usually manned by a much smaller garrison apparently.
I have looked around and sadly i can't find any old photos from when it was in use :-(
@@SubExploration Sorry haven't seen any pics of the fort in use but these are photos of Officers and NCOs from 1915:
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dkbrown/buffs1.jpg
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dkbrown/buffs2.jpg
Enjoyed this one! Haven’t been in years, need to get back! :-)
This is thee video. Best one.
Last time I was there it was dry on the ground levels. We found a tunnel that slopped down and got wetter the further in you went. The tunnel just went straight on and my torch couldn't see the end. That was more than 30 years ago though. There were huge flooded areas open to the environment even then. It was just all below ground level. Ahh happy days of old. Out of the other forts of Medway, Bridgewood and Borstal were my favourites for exploring covertly.
Next week’s video we go into all of the flooded bit so you can see. Yes I used to enjoy exploring around Fort Borstal when I was around 13. Unfortunately the current owners down really let people in as I’d love to go in with a camera. Sadly, I never managed to see fort Bridgwood before it was demolished for the bloody post office.
I got into your channel a few days ago. So far I'm hooked. Been going through all of them from new to old. I love them all!! I'm from New York in the United states. You can explore way better places than here.
Hi, thanks for checking us out. I think your the first to comment from New York 👍
Fuck yeah man. I'm a huge fan now!!!
Always a thumbs up
I'm a vollenteer at a fort at Milford Haven , Chapel bay Fort , it's well worth a look if you're ever in this part of the country , look it up . Lots of other dissused forts etc to explore in the area .
I've just had a quick google. You guys do have a lot of forts! :-D
Fantastic! Looking forward to part 2. 👍🏻
The more modern 'tube' was near certain an ammo lift for the WW2 guns.
As for 'tensions' it seems all of Europe had them. Go to Guernsey and see military enplacements on average every 500 metres. Though for probably 500 years of various wars. The Germans went overboard during WW2.
It's a shame the level of dilapidation and vandalization makes it difficult to imagine how it used to look like during its golden days before there were paved roads and cars around...
This building is from the haydays of the Victorian era, a really prosperous time for the country of Great Britain. Back in the 1860s the national income per person grew by half due to industrialization and global trade. In America, they fought the civil war and lived through the peak days of the Wild West era. The great Russian writers Tolstoy and Dostoevsky wrote War & Peace and Crime & Punishment. In China, the last imperial dynasty was still in power (Qing China), and the Ottoman Empire was deemed the "sick man of Europe" due to their troubled economy. Dynamite was invented, helium was discovered and Mendeleev came up with the modern periodic table.
But, alas, all great men, important buildings and even vast empires fall as the inexorable march of time keeps its stride. This building is now just another broken, old, abandoned and defunct piece of history, riddled with graffiti sprayed by the inhabitants of our dying era.
excellent video, mate!
I am fascinated by these sorts of places. I am puzzled that if a person falls on a mountain and breaks a leg it is almost a badge of honour, yet if the same happens on a man made structure we try to block it off or demolish it. Maybe it hurts more to break a leg on a manmade structure. What is the difference between a trespasser and an explorer? Answer the school they went to.
A very interesting points to bring up. I like your thinking bud. Never thought of it that way.
When I went there I just walked passed the aggregates place and hopped up a 4 foot wall at the corner. Got a pic of me peeing out of the window on the corner that appears to have no roof now (21:57). Go in summer, it's much nicer, loads of dragonflies wtc
Very cool. We dont really have this kind of history in America so thanks for showing us. I dont know how hard it is to find and explore old castles but that would be the coolest
Because Castles are some of the oldest things around, they are often privately owned or in the hands of historic organisations and are open to the public. I grew up living just down the road from a pretty badass castle (Rochester Castle to be exact) so I’ll have to go and do some filming at some point.
Really interesting, many thanks for sharing this with us. Loved it.
Nice those video's, keep going on..
Fortress gun mounts often had sliding carriages that allowed muzzle loading from within the casemates once the barrels had recoiled.
Nice 👌
Bloody awesome! :> Thanks for this video (and the next).
Thank you for sharing, I wish I could go out exploring 😟
Great explore guys excellent work 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🛸🛸
Another awesome video guys great job really enjoyed it 😀Too bad these old forts are falling apart.
Thank you. Yes its a shame but we have many forts that are being looked after and are open to the public. Fort Nelson in Portsmouth is a great one.
Hi Simon, such a cool explore, kudos to you guys for jumping like racehorses over the obstacles lol. Thanks for sharing this unique location. x
Race horses 😂😂😂
Why would 8 people give a thumbs down?
That was really good. Places like this come to me in nightmares. What a bruising structure.
Trouble with france so how long would that have taken to build? Surely you'd say. "Look, I appreciate we need fortification at this place but it will take ten years to build and fit out, it will cost a fortune in materials and labour and by the time we're done building and manning it we could well be besties with the frogs, so...tent fort anybody?"
Also, what's the 'magazine level?"
We used French POW's to build a lot of these old things so that kept the cost down 😂
The magazine level is below the gun emplacement and I were the ammunition and charges would have been stored. You can see it this coming Friday.
@@SubExploration cheers fella. Loving your channel. Literally immersing yourself in the history is compelling.
And now i remember that Dartmoor prisin was also built by the french wasn't it? That is one imposing lump too. A truly daunting sight.
Very impressive, the security is military personnel and police from the training facility just along the coast, they use the area for training as well. Also where the hell did you park? If you look across the Thames you see Coalhouse Fort, its in better condition and worth a visit too.
We had to park miles away. Good long walk this one.
Great work keep it up
Great fort. Ive done the lower levels, ropes no waders lol.. did take spare trainers but it got to deep and there was slug like things in the water, not leeches but enough to make my pals give up haha.. there use to be a big rope to climb up near the tower at the cement works. Got some wicked pics in an album. Spent the night there a couple of times exploring parties off our wallies. Probably not the best idea now but was a good one then. haha.. there is i think 2 smaller ones either side of that one, one was a fort type and ones a fortish building.
Yeah i've seen photos of that place during a party. Lit up in all different colours 😂
@@SubExploration haha happy days... me and my mates see some crazy stuff one nite there, we was a bit worse for wear shall we say. But we all see the same thing and was dodging it and see each dodging it, Which was weird. I see someone curled up in a corner hiding and filthy dirty then vanish. The other thing was like the place came alive for a couple of seconds and someone went past me on an old bicycle. I dont believe in all that stuff and i did eat some funny biscuits so also could have been that for the last 2 but the one we all see i cant explain so easily. I dodged it and see it head to a friend and he moved to dodge it then another friend and he did the same. We all see the same thing and all interacted the same. It was a black entity, maybe a bloody bat and we all was to licked to focus i dunno but a great story and a great night haha..
Cracking explore chaps! Thank you for sharing it with us. I remember the original video where you had to hide in the bushes...
Wow, just goes to show that you have been with us for a while now. Thanks for watching.
@@SubExploration thank you for turning out engaging videos of cracking explores... Would love to be able to tag along, but your videos are the next best thing!
Mate I really do love your content really grate work on every video I feel like I am there with you and your taking me on a guided tour!!
Thank you 😉👍
very awesome and interesting.
Thank you.
Awesome!
Ive been looking forward to seeing this one for some time.....thank you!
Surely yoou must be running out of fresh brick/1860's forts to explore- at least without needing a boat :v
I'm planning on getting my hands on a boat ;-)
Nice video lads, keep the good work up
Well done guys,it's a shame that our heritage is allowed to disintegrate while the new 'owners' profit from the resource and are not compelled to make any effort to keep the site intact.Fascinating to see those casemates and the Brennan torpedo launch area.Many thanks for all your efforts to record this.
Well that was a very interesting explore guys thnx loved watching it.
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Super video, really liked the establishing drone shots at the beginning.
Good video bro I taught that kid u was talking about he went to the secondary school I was teaching at, he broke his back had to get air lifted off
Did he recover from it?
"bro I taught that kid u was talking about" obviously not english
Jesus! Atleast he didn't die.
That would have made a great tourist attraction. There is a fort like this, not as big, near where I live on a small island “Ship Island” that use to protect the mouth of the Mississippi River from enemy ships. It’s a great place to visit.
I've just googled it. Nice looking fort that 👍
Good walk about! It has similarities to Fort Sumter in the colonies!🤣
Beautifull fort man
Very interesting explore...Dude looks like Bernard McGuirk.
Disused kids playground basically, here in the N.E we had sound mirrors and a false hill with a 'farmhouse' half a mile away, the farmhouse and hill were linked by a tunnel but this was always flooded, we gained access by climbing down ventilation shafts, I was around 11 years old at the time, I took my own kids up there in the late nineties after returning to the area as I'd noticed antennas had been positioned on the housings for the vent shafts only to be chased off by security guards, it was a WW2 radar station as far as I can determine.
Is that Sergent Bilko with you for protection, I almost didn't spot him in the camo gear.
Nice one
I actually live in cliffe the village nearby, from what i remember the kid just broke his legs. There are alot of nice historical abandoned buildings on the marsh, including old lime kilns and a munitions factory from WW1
I also lived in the Cliffe area, the kid just broke his legs, no one ever died there. I remember we used to have raves in Cliffe Fort, how times change.
I can't believe you guys went in there without climbing rope. And the obligatory 10' pole ;)
Plenty of death traps guys please be careful love your work nice video.
That is one spooky damn place!
I live near it, been in it myself!
I remember the first vid of this it was one of the first vids I watched of you lol 😂
Such a shame you had so much wind at the begining. I tend to use Gaviscon...
Asked the doctor if he had anything for wind.....gave me a kite.
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"Stealthily evading security" meanwhile the place is covered in graffiti
Explored ciffe in the 80s and 90s. Also carried out a archaeological survey. I know Cliffe well.... My uncle was killed at Cliffe fort in WW1. Also the approach road was used as a location in Full metal jacket.
Wow so you must know the fort well if you did all that. A shame to hear about your uncle.
Yeah i'm aware of Kubricks work in the area 😉
@@SubExploration I know it's very a dangerous place. I've been involved in Military archaeology for 30 years. And even earned a living doing so.. I've been to places which are ruins and hidden beyond belief . But Cliffe is the one I feel least safe going to. Still its a great location.
It takes me all in all 5 seconds to get in spent the night there camping it was brillaint :)
Wow what an amazing place! Well done guys can't wait for the next video! (love badgers response at the end its usually the other way round you telling him you hate him 😂😂)
Fella with the glasses at the stare looks like the lad from This is England.
Love this place, shame it's such a pain to get in now :/
Looks like a place you stumble apon during a Zombie Apocalypse,
automatic shelter yo!
hell ion earth lads got in here easyyyyyyy about two weeks ago. not watched it yet but i presume il learn something about the place from you
Yeah they did. I wouldn’t say easy tho, they didn’t show everything 🤣 They also decided to take the riskiest route ever lol I’m surprised they weren’t caught. I spoke with them after they put the video out. They will let me know if they need any decent local advise the next time they are down in Kent 😉👍
If you want to be invisible get a high viz jacket to make you look like a pair of security muppets.
Been on train tracks loads of times in high viz. Can be good cover
@@memekampf1751 Got to learn body language too. A military bearing is not easy to emulate.
@@blancsteve4819 This is no longer a military site.
When you put on Hi-Vis you essentially become predator.
@@SubExploration Steal that shoulder mounted raygun mount and stick a gopro on it !
The predators are too busy channeling Elmer Fudd "hunting the Awien".
how much do you think it would cost to buy this fort in tits current condition, to restore it / live in it?
Wow, to buy it and restore it to a liveable condition would cost more money that i could ever hope to earn in my lifetime.
Liked video and subscribed
Thank you and welcome!
Great vid guys love those old t tunnels and forts keep it up love all your vids off to check out IKS new vid next keep it up much love and respect from Maine USA to u all doing this
Thanks Tom!
great video
Thank you
Another great video guys, keep them coming, thanks :)
Good one guys !....definitely revisit with rope and waders🤘🤘🤘🤘
We did. Video this Friday 👍
Can you imagine the noise when the guns fired inside those gun rooms. Blood, snot and other fluids and solids would come out of your body orifices. Greetings from Down Under for a great video, thankyou.
I think that blood and snot are not the main worry. Things that should come out solid but quickly come out as a liquid would be my main concern 🤣
Awsum vid enjoyed you walking around and explaining what you could understand just got a sub from me 😁
Thank you and welcome!
Nice the best
Is this Fort the one oppisite coal House and Tilbury Fort?
Thats the one!
Often looked at it across the Thames from coal House.
But was told it was demolished in ww2. As was used as ammo store and got bombed. 🤔 🤔
be good to see that be done up.
It would but the cost would be too high and no one would take on the project.
that place its amazing look how thick those walls are..... its a massive place overall
never understand why these kinda places just get left to rot after so much work obviously went into making them .
just sad at how time just devours everything
Would cost too much to maintain :-(