New Tavern Fort & Milton Chantry, Gravesend - Documentary
Our next adventure takes us to New Tavern Fort in Gravesend, joined by Jay Curtis from Thames Defence Heritage who shows us some of the fascinating areas of the fort and it’s magazine tunnels usually closed to the public for an exclusive tour. We also get a look inside Milton Chantry within the fort grounds. Many of our releases recently have been of our new hands-on vlog style, but here we return to our classic professional TV documentary style, running through the history of the fort and its alterations.
Note: The song in the cinematic interlude was recorded in 1906; contemporary to when the fort was modified into its current form
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Don't forget to LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to BeyondthePointTV
New videos released fortnightly on weekends. Being non-profit, we try our best to upload regularly but this can increase to weekly or include brief hiatuses at times!
Best Attractions and Places to See in Gravesend, United Kingdom UK
Gravesend Travel Guide. MUST WATCH. Top things you have to do in Gravesend. We have sorted Tourist Attractions in Gravesend for You. Discover Gravesend as per the Traveller Resources given by our Travel Specialists. You will not miss any fun thing to do in Gravesend.
This Video has covered Best Attractions and Things to do in Gravesend.
Don't forget to Subscribe our channel to view more travel videos. Click on Bell ICON to get the notification of updates Immediately.
List of Best Things to do in Gravesend, United Kingdom (UK)
Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara
Shorne Woods Country Park
Tilbury-Gravesend Ferry
Tilbury Fort
Cyclopark
Statue of Pocahontas
New Tavern Fort
St George's Church
Gravesend Visitor Information Centre
Jeskyns
New Tavern Fort
See the Fort for yourself, its only £1 entry and is well worth a look.
This video is a quick glimpse inside the magazines of New Tavern Fort which have been restored to how it would have looked in 1872. Part Two will look at the second half of the magazines set out to show how life was like in Gravesend during World War Two.
New Tavern Fort was constructed between 1780-1783. The fort takes its name from the New Tavern Inn that had stood on the site before the forts construction.
Originally the fort was an irregular earthwork in front of which was an unrevetted ditch. The forts armament consisted of 15 heavy guns (24 and 32 pounders) that fired through embrasures. By 1790s further additions had been made to the fort these including the commanding Royal Engineers quarters, stables, magazines, a caponier and a loopholed rear defence wall.
Throughout the 1800s the fort underwent several major reconstructions and rearmament namely due to the 1860 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom.
In 1865 Lt. Col. Charles G. Gordon (later General) became commanding Royal Engineer and was tasked with the reconstruction and updating of the Thames defences. His work included the overseeing of the demolishing of the existing magazines and ramparts at the fort so that the ramparts could be remodelled to accommodate new magazines, 11 new emplacements were built out of brick and of which 7 were fronted with iron shields being armed with 10 9-inch and 1 12-inch RML guns.
At the turn of the 20th Century the fort had lost it’s importance, it’s RML guns became obsolete and its defensive structures were deemed weak and overcrowded. The 11 emplacements were demolished in 1905 being replaced by 2 concrete pit emplacements each holding a 6-inch breech loading gun. The guns only stood watch over the Thames for a few years before being removed. During World War One the fort became a Royal Engineers depot. The fort saw new life in 1930 being rearmed with two replacement 6-inch guns to train the Gravesend Battery of the Territorial Army. Although no longer armed during World War Two the fort still played its part being used as a Naval Radio Monitoring Station, it’s magazines being requisitioned in 1941 by the Admiralty to be used as air raid shelters by the nearby shore establishment HMS Gordon.
Today the fort has been restored as a tourist attraction with its magazines that have been extensively refurbished and requipped open on summer weekends and surface areas being open all year round. It is the only completely armed two gun battery of its type in the UK and it’s array of guns and emplacements from a 200year period being unique.
Photos can be found here:
New Tavern Fort in Gravesend - KENT
Having seen use in multiple centuries this place is quite nifty to visit. Located near the mouth of the River Thames it has been guarding the people up-river in London for quite some time.
New Tavern Fort Part 2: World War Two
See the Fort for yourself, its only £1 entry and is well worth a look.
This video is a quick glimpse inside the magazines of New Tavern Fort which have been set out to show how life was like in Gravesend during World War Two.
Part One looks at the first section of the magazines, restored to how it would have looked in 1872.
During World War Two the magazines would have been used as a Air Raid Shelter/ Sleeping Shelter for the personnel of HMS Gordon, a shore establishment utilising the adjacent (and no longer existing) Sea School.
Below is a brief history of the fort:
New Tavern Fort was constructed between 1780-1783. The fort takes its name from the New Tavern Inn that had stood on the site before the forts construction.
Originally the fort was an irregular earthwork in front of which was an unrevetted ditch. The forts armament consisted of 15 heavy guns (24 and 32 pounders) that fired through embrasures. By 1790s further additions had been made to the fort these including the commanding Royal Engineers quarters, stables, magazines, a caponier and a loopholed rear defence wall.
Throughout the 1800s the fort underwent several major reconstructions and rearmament namely due to the 1860 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom.
In 1865 Lt. Col. Charles G. Gordon (later General) became commanding Royal Engineer and was tasked with the reconstruction and updating of the Thames defences. His work included the overseeing of the demolishing of the existing magazines and ramparts at the fort so that the ramparts could be remodelled to accommodate new magazines, 11 new emplacements were built out of brick and of which 7 were fronted with iron shields being armed with 10 9-inch and 1 12-inch RML guns.
At the turn of the 20th Century the fort had lost it’s importance, it’s RML guns became obsolete and its defensive structures were deemed weak and overcrowded. The 11 emplacements were demolished in 1905 being replaced by 2 concrete pit emplacements each holding a 6-inch breech loading gun. The guns only stood watch over the Thames for a few years before being removed. During World War One the fort became a Royal Engineers depot. The fort saw new life in 1930 being rearmed with two replacement 6-inch guns to train the Gravesend Battery of the Territorial Army. Although no longer armed during World War Two the fort still played its part being used as a Naval Radio Monitoring Station, it’s magazines being requisitioned in 1941 by the Admiralty to be used as air raid shelters by the nearby shore establishment HMS Gordon.
Today the fort has been restored as a tourist attraction with its magazines that have been extensively refurbished and requipped open on summer weekends and surface areas being open all year round. It is the only completely armed two gun battery of its type in the UK and it’s array of guns and emplacements from a 200year period being unique.
Photos can be found here:
Trailer - New Tavern Fort
Teaser Trailer for SPIRAL PARANORMAL's exclusive investigation at the historic New Tavern Fort on the Thames Estuary.
COMING SOON
Music by Kevin Macleod
Please Connect:
FACEBOOK:
TWITER:
INSTAGRAM:
IMDB:
Englang london tilbury firt fimily vist Picture Story Of Tilbury Fort
he first permanent fort at Tilbury was a D-shaped blockhouse built in 1539 by Henry VIII and first called the 'Thermitage Bulwark', because it was on the site of a hermitage dissolved in 1536.[1] The Tilbury blockhouse was designed to cross-fire with a similar structure at New Tavern, Gravesend. During the Armada campaign the fort was reinforced with earthworks and a palisade and there was a boom of ships' masts, chains and cables stretched across from Thames to Gravesend anchored to lighters.[2] Furthermore, it was in nearby West Tilbury that Elizabeth I rallied her makeshift army as it awaited the Armada in 1588
The fort was held for Parliament during the English Civil War and despite suffering from neglect was never attacked by the Royalists.[3] In 1651 its garrison was a governor, a lieutenant, an ensign, four corporals, one drummer, a master gunner, 16 matrosses (gunner's mates) and 44 soldiers. After the English Civil war Charles II was exiled in Holland, where he was influenced by European advances in military architecture. Following the disastrous 1667 Dutch attack on the English fleet moored on the nearby Medway, Charles II set in motion the re-fortification of the site by employing Dutchman Sir Bernard de Gomme, who had been engineer in the Royalist army during the civil war and who followed Charles into exile.
Spiral Episode 53 - New Tavern Fort
New Tavern Fort is an historic artillery Fort in Gravesend, Kent UK and it's many reports of unexplained phenomena occurring here bring The SPIRAL PARANORMAL Team to investigate this historic location. Dating mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries, it is an unusually well-preserved example of an 18th-century fortification and remained in use for defensive purposes until the Second World War.
Produced and Directed by Marq English
Music by Kevin MacLeod
--------------------------------------------------
Please Connect:
FACEBOOK:
TWITER:
TWITER:
INSTAGRAM:
IMDB:
My Other YOUTUBE Channels:
MARQ ENGLISH:
MEV PRODUCTIONS:
--------------------------------------------------
Fort in the 40's 2017 Gravesend RE-enactment.
Black and white version of a bombed out town acted out by reenactment volunteers.
Gravesend - Decus et Tutamen - An Ornament and a Safeguard
This video shows some of the historic places in Gravesend in Kent. In particular you can see the New Tavern Fort, rebuilt under the command of General Gordon in the 19th Century, and the foundations of the blockhouse built in Tudor times. This is to illustrate the Latin motto of Gravesend, Decus et Tutamen, an ornament and a safeguard, as Gravesend for hundreds of years guarded the Thames. I have also filmed the statue of Pocahontas, near where she is buried, and some of the sights you can see across the river such as the Tilbury power station and container docks.
4 Gravesend and Northfleet River Cycle including the Hunt for Pocahontas
Gravesend, Northfleet, Pocahontas. This is part of my attempt to cycle around the Kent Coast, starting along the river Thames going onto the coast. I've called it The Kent Coast Cycling Challenge. This is Part 4. This features Pocahontas, New Tavern Fort and over Gravesend Landmarks. Thanks for watching, please subscribe as the series can only get better... Please check out my channel for the Route only blog or follow this Link :
The Thames from Gravesend
Filmed 12.5.12 from the ramparts at New Tavern Fort, originally built 1780 and modified in 1865-71 by the then Colonel Gordon, later the General famously killed at Khartoum*. (He also built Coalhouse Fort at East Tilbury and modernised one of Tilbury Fort's bastions.)
From here one can see round The Hope and up to Southend, and across to Tilbury Power Station and Tilbury Fort.
* In the film he was played by Charlton Heston!
Nice day in gravesend riverside festival
Hollow Illusion: Live ( Gravesend, London UK August 2019)
#hollowillusion #Gravesend #London #UK
Filmed at A Summer Burnout Festival , Leo's Red Lion i Gravesend UK 24.08 , and The George Tavern London UK 10.08 2019 .
1. I Don't Care: 00:00- 04:31
2. Bass Solo/ Jam : 04:32-05:28
3. Lights Go Down : 05:29-11.10
Click Here to subscribe :
Follow us and hit us up.
Snow 2013 Windmill hill to shornemead fort
I own all pictures and video footage i do not own the soundtrack this is owned by third parties and i aknowledge this.
East Tilbury Battery
Situated just half a mile away from Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury Battery, was constructed from 1887-93 and supplemented Coalhouse Fort as part of the Thames’ coastal defence system. Read more:
Two Forts Way Coalhouse Fort to Tilbury Fort
Taken 26th December 2015.
Ok for most of the route but some sections not really suitable for road bikes
Old Cine film Part 2
Produced with CyberLink PowerDirector 9
AEI HENLEY'S AIR RAID SHELTERS, NORTHFLEET -- EPISODE 1
This historical documentary series was filmed some time ago!
The tunnels today are now locked and are not accessible to the public!
---------- Please Subscribe for new video every Friday 10AM! -----------
This week folks we visit the forgotten underground tunnel system built in world war two to protect factory working from the German bombing.
Facebook Page:
Instagrame Page:
#IKS
Gravesend Centre Holidays