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English: Palmerston's Follies. This view looking downstream along the River Thames shows the locations of the three nineteenth-century forts defending the approach to London. On the Essex side there was 37911 and on the Kent side 48171 and 147305. There were a number of other forts like this around the country, none of which ever fired a shot in anger until WW2 and then only anti-aircraft fire. They were known disparagingly as Palmerston's Follies. However, had an enemy ever tried an assault up the Thames the picture shows how the crossfire would have made life very uncomfortable to say the least. NB the G.R is for the river between the forts. |
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| Author | Glyn Baker |
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This image was taken from the Geograph GB & Eire project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Glyn Baker, and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.0 license.
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