Coalhouse Fort, Tilbury. Essex. UK
Evening sky over Coalhouse Fort in Tilbury, Essex.
Next to the Thames as the ships go to and fro from Tilbury Docks.
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Coalhouse Fort - Tilbury - England
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EXPLORING EAST TILBURY GUN BATTERY AND COALHOUSE FORT
I was joined by Candice again as we went in search of the remains of East Tilbury gun battery in South East Essex.
We then visited the remains of World War II defences along the Thames Estuary at Coalhouse Fort before having a wander around the fort itself (it was closed!).
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Coalhouse Fort East Tilbury Essex 4K UHD
Coalhouse fot in Essex only opens a few days a year and is well woth a visit to see this old militart fortificaion. It houses various collections of WW1 and WW2 artifacts on display.
COALHOUSE FORT OPEN DAY | TUNNEL AND ROOFTOP DEFENCES EXPLORE
I finally got to go in and explore Coalhouse Fort down on the Thames estuary in Essex with Candice! It is only open on the last Sunday of every month, and I had a spare morning before work to head down there and investigate. I wasn't disappointed.
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Drone Footage Tilbury Coalhouse Fort Essex UK
25th September 2018. Chasing the sunset so it's a bit dark. Still beautiful light though. The music is by me and the drone is a DJI Spark.
Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury
A quick walk around.
If this place interests you, look in the local papers, or 'on line', and you will find all the dates and times that the fort is open, and what special events are happening here.
Not that far away is the interesting Tilbury Fort, so 'make a day of it'! Visit south Essex!
Batman Begins (2005) Location - Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Essex
The Asian prison, where Bruce puts himself to study criminals before creating the Batman. He fights some inmates here while breakfast is being served
Remembrance Service Coalhouse Fort East Tilbury 2016
Army Action
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Coalhouse Fort Tilbury
Coalhouse Fort is an artillery fort built in the 1860s to guard the lower Thames from seaborne attack. It stands at Coalhouse Point in Essex on the north bank of the river, at a location that was vulnerable to raiders and invaders
Coalhouse Fort drone footage
First edited drone footage taken with my DJI Phantom 3 Standard. Didn't realise the camera lens had picked up some due when landing on a damp field. Lesson learnt. Taken at Coalhouse Fort in East Tilbury.
Coalhouse Fort Park - Where did Coalhouse Fort get it's name ?
Jonathan Catton describing how Coalhouse Fort received it's name.
Coalhouse fort defending the Thames
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Coalhouse Fort is a late nineteenth century artillery position guarding the River Thames designed by General Gordon, later of Khartoum fame.
There was a fort on this site dating to the sixteenth century although nothing survives. The fort was rebuilt in the 1874. The fort is located on low lying land in a curve of the river Thames at East Tilbury and was positioned there to form a triangle of fire between Coalhouse Fort on the Essex bank of the river and Cliffe Fort and Shornmead Fort on the Kent bank.
During World War Two, rooms in Coalhouse Fort were equipped with instruments used to monitor the magnetic field of ships as they left the docks at Tilbury. This monitoring was to confirm the effectiveness of the individual vessel's degaussing equipment. Degaussing is a process whereby the naturally occurring magnetic field of a steel hulled ship could be neutralised by fitting electrical cables around the hull and passing an electric current through them. The neutralisation of the magnetic field was used as a countermeasure against magnetic mines which are triggered by the magnetic field of a ship's hull passing over them. The monitoring station was staffed by Wrens (Women's Royal Naval Service) working with civilian technicians. Cables were laid on the river bed and as ships passed over them, the magnetic field could be measured and (if necessary) adjustments made to the ship's equipment. The fort communicated with the ships by flags, Aldis lamp and in some cases by launch if the ship failed to stop. The Wrens and the technical staff were under strict orders not to discuss their work as degaussing was highly secret.
When completed in 1874, a single tier of armoured casemates and an open battery housed 20 rifled muzzle loading guns of 9, 11 and 12.5 inch calibre. By 1906, these were obsolete and were replaced by breech loading 6 inch and 12 pounder quick firing guns. These served through World War I but were all removed by the 1930s. In May 1940, the 5.5 inch guns were removed from HMS Hood in a refit. A pair of these were installed in specially built casemates on the roof of the fort.
Coalhouse Fort itself is partly surrounded by a water filled wet ditch (not moat) and a dry ditch as part of the defences from the Victorian period. Apart from wells and a water storage cistern, there are no underground structures at Coalhouse. As the fort is built on marshland, any excavations would be likely to fill with water.
Due south from the fort and close to the river is the remains of a quick firing battery. This was constructed in the early part of the twentieth century and originally equipped with 12 pounder artillery pieces. Further on down the river, at some distance from the fort, there are a number of defensive works. On the river foreshore about half a mile from the fort stands the remains of an early radar tower. This tower was constructed during World War II and was one of the earliest examples of its type. Because of the secrecy surrounding radar during World War II this structure was marked on maps as a 'water tower' to confuse the enemy and this 'decoy' name has been continued on maps up until recently.
The fort has been used as a location for TV programmes and films. These include the external shots of the prison at the beginning of Batman Begins.
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TNGC Grays Uk attended Annual Remembrance Day parade & service at Coalhouse Fort 29-11-15
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Coalhouse Fort From The Air
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Dowsing with Marion Goodfellow at CoalHouse Fort, Tilbury
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Trip to Essex FOLKS — Coalhouse Fort — (Vlog 4)
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We had a day in Essex that was not a good day at all lol we only found a few things. In this video we visit the location of Coal House Fort.
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Coalhouse Fort Essex Mavic Pro
Coalhouse Fort in East Tilbury South Essex along the Thames Estury
Filmed with a Mavic Pro using waypoints in Litchi app and a manual orbit at the end that I turned into a time lapse, it was 3 minutes long.
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Heritage Matters: Coalhouse Fort
Local historian Mike Ostler takes us on a tour of Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury