Grain Tower
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Grain Tower is a mid-19th-century gun tower situated offshore just east of Grain, Kent, standing in the mouth of the River Medway. It was built along the same lines as the Martello towers that were co
Grain Tower at low tide
Image of grain battery tower at low tide
1870 view of the forts at the mouth of the Medway: (left to right) Garrison Point, Grain Tower, Grain Fort
Grain Tower Battery, Rochester, United Kingdom, 2019
Garrison Point Fort
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Garrison Point Fort is a former artillery fort situated at the end of the Garrison Point peninsula at Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. Built in the 1860s in response to concerns about a possi
Grain Tower
…fort-building programme. Instead, a new Grain Fort was built on land, while the existing battery at Garrison Point was rebuilt as the two-tier casemated Garrison Point Fort. The tower's smoothbore guns were soon replaced with RMLs: one 56-pounder and two 32-pounders. These were withdrawn as late as 1910, when the tower was…
Garrison Point Fort viewed from the Medway
De Gomme's fort (centre) alongside the Dockyard (Richard Paton, c.1775).
Garrison Point Fort, 2008