Sadlers Farm A13 Defensive Roadblock
At the junction of the Sadlers Farm roundabout and Tarpots on the A13 road lies a suspected wartime remnant passed by hundreds of people everyday …
Lower Hope Battery
This battery is perhaps one of Cliffe’s least well-recognised pieces of ruined defence heritage. The initial Lower Hope Battery was built to defend the Thames …
Salt Lane Air Raid Shelters
Along Salt Lane in Cliffe lies an overgrown pair of air raid shelter tunnels installed to protect industrial workers of the Alpha cement works in …
Excalibur Estate
Following intense bombing during the Second World War, Londoners were in need of new homes – and fast. The solution adopted by the Government was …
Dagenham Anti Tank Cylinders
Built close to Dagenham East Station, these anti-tank cylinders were built in World War Two to slow down any German tanks, should they have made …
All Saints Church
Overlooking the A127 with views spanning from Essex to London, the Grade II-listed All Saints Church has stood semi-abandoned for decades until 2021 when an …
Silver End Modernist Village
Silver End is a village in the Braintree area of Essex, constructed in the late 1920s as a self-contained ‘model village’ by Francis Henry Crittall; …
Dunton Plotlands Ruins
The plotlands was an area of natural land available for rent/purchase as holiday spots, popular with Londoners who wanted to escape to the countryside. No …
Highgate’s Abandoned Railway: Parkland Walk
Parkland Walk allows people to walk along the abandoned tube line between Finsbury Park and Highgate and has been dubbed London’s version of New York’s …
Medway UB-122 Submarine Wreck
SM UB-122 was a World War One German submarine, or U-Boat, in the German Imperial Navy which was first commissioned in March 1918 after a …