Discovering a Buried Military Base - Spurn Point

A Military Presence at Spurn Point dates back over a hundred years. In recent years voulenteers have dug out the buried World War Two remains ot the defences that were abandoned in the 1950's.
Spurn Point has a long, diverse and interesting past - both natural and human. From military tunnels to lifeboat stations and abandoned villages to storm surges, this landscape has a wealth of history to discover. A Railway once ran the entire length of the peninsula, this was destroyed by a storm in 2013.
Spurn was formed from sediment, sand and gravels washing down the dynamic and rapidly eroding Holderness coast in East Yorkshire. These materials were moved along the coast by longshore drift and created a spit between the North Sea and the River Humber. It's a just over three miles long, and as narrow as 60 meters wide in places.
Spurn Point from an Aircraft • Journey Through Time: ...
For further details about visiting Spurn including organised tours, visit the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's Website.
The YWT have done amazing things down at Spurn including a Discover Centre with lots of information.
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[@The_Modeling_Underdog]

Excellent video, Andy & Harry. Lots of very interesting things. The Command Post with the Dreyer table for calculating the fall of shot alone makes it worth visiting. The Trust is doing a fine job at clearing the debris. The blue painted walls were, as you said, for reducing glare-induced blindness to the searchlight crew and to minimize back reflection towards the sea and air through the open doors. It's a beautiful shade of blue, Light Mediterranean Blue or Mediterranean Blue probably, which has faded to a lighter shad with the passing of time. Those were two colours deviced around 1935/36 with the Abyssinian Crisis in mind. Had the RAF had to fight the Italians in East Africa, aircraft flying over the sea would have been painted in those shades. These were used for everything else in the end, but proved their worth in Malta during 1941/42. Trust a properly tiled and mantained floor. It will be there for decades. Cheers.

[@IKS-Exploration]

Love the snow :) best time to explore I’d say lol amazing video 😊

[@ALWResearchTeam]

Spurn is so unique to me

[@barbhenderson4867]

Great video Andy and so interesting xx

[@ALWResearchTeam]

Glad you enjoyed it Barb :)

[@LadyLucie]

Wow so interesting! Thank you so much for sharing ❤

[@ALWResearchTeam]

You are so welcome Lucie. When is your next Live?

[@thomascourtney8756]

Well done lads really enjoyed it. Thank you 😊👍

[@ALWResearchTeam]

Our pleasure Sir.

[@weyayemanjoe3082]

Another great explore Andy & Harry, Thanks for Sharing 👍🏻

[@ALWResearchTeam]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@weyayemanjoe3082]

I did M8

[@daystatesniper01]

Excellent video lads and good to see restoration slowly taking place

[@ALWResearchTeam]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@daviddavies2072]

Brilliant video and good to hear someone is looking after it ,well done all 👍🇬🇧

[@ALWResearchTeam]

Thank you very much Sir.

[@jodysmith6659]

Really enjoy your content. Keep up the good work.

[@ALWResearchTeam]

Thanks, will do! :)

[@philiphollowday6741]

Great video, last time we were down on the point, all those places were still hidden/covered. My great aunt, when she was alive, could remember the sail powered railway down the point. We were privileged to have been some of the last people down the point by car before the breach happened; recent trips have seen us get down via the unimog. It's a wonderful, wild, bleak natural environment. Thank you for sharing, Phil H

[@daveg2104]

The NCO LBDR on the generator room wall would probably be Non-commissioned Officer Lance Bombardier. Appropriate for an artillery site.

[@stewartrhodes1434]

Great video, I’ve not been for a couple of years but planning on going in the next couple of months and will try to get to some of the buildings shown in the video. Nice to see they have cut back some of the vegetation.

[@ALWResearchTeam]

You should certainly visit Stewart. Check the weather and tide times :) the YWT spurn webpage also has up to date information for visitors. Don’t want to sound like a care bear but it can be an unforgiving place.

[@shirleydrury5565]

My grandfather serviced at Dunkirk he was royal artillery .he was a corporal in charge of a 25pounder . He went right through to eur

[@lonewolfhamradio]

Great content as always, I sometimes wander down to the end of Spurn to play with my radios, l was down there a couple of weeks ago and saw a seal 🦭 pup !

[@ALWResearchTeam]

Oooh nice, what radios do you have?

[@lonewolfhamradio]

@@ALWResearchTeam amateur radios.

[@urbangeeze1348]

Nice one Andy, really interesting excellent vlog on spurn point. Would you happen to know why the British measured shell size in lbs, instead of inch's or millimetres as per Europe did. Yet the cannons fitted to British fighter aircraft were sized in m.m & the machine guns in inches, e.g .303. Seems like they used a bit of everything instead of standardising as per the germans. Got to say, your quality of work gets better & better, so look forward to future vlogs, m8. Regards Urban Geeze.

[@ALWResearchTeam]

Hello there. Dave and I discussed your question and it likely dates back to the breach loading guns of the Palmerston Fort days where large fixed position guns became a key defence strategy. With breach loaders the charge and projectile was measured by weight as the gunpowder did not have a caliber and the projectile was hand crafted an approximate bore. Then more modern guns replaced them as time went on and the imperial weight measurement seemed to stick.

[@urbangeeze1348]

Thanks to both yourself & Dave for taking the time to answer my question. I guess it's a peculiar way the military works, but speaking for myself, I can't relate to that system with regard to size of the projectile when measured in weight,{lbs), as it could be any size when no measurements are given. Anyway, look forward to further content, & thanks again.

[@The_Modeling_Underdog]

@@urbangeeze1348 As Andy correctly pointed out, it had to do with weight of shot. On the RN it was increasingly faced-out as larger, heavier and more accurately produced guns came into service starting in the middle of the 19th Century. Smaller guns kept the weight designator, such as the anti-torpedo boat 6-pounders present in large numbers in protected cruisers and pre-dreadnought designs and the latter 2-pounder AA pom-poms. 37mm Nordenfelts kept their original European designation in milimeters. RA kept the pounder designator for a longer time, bar for the 4.9 field guns (114mm) of WWI and a few others. When it comes to aerial armament, it had much to do with stablished practises and the weapon itself. Vickers, Lewis and Brownings all used the standard british .303 round; yet the Hispano 20mm cannons kept their original calibre designation because it was a foreign gun. Yanks used the .79 inch designation (iirc) for their 20mm but it was later changed due to widespread use of the latter. It's a rabbit hole. Albeit a very interesting one. Cheers.

[@jeffdayman8183]

Great video, really interesting to see the buildings and structures in detail. Wonderful stone and brick work in the lighthouses. Thanks for sharing it! Cheers.

[@ALWResearchTeam]

Glad you enjoyed it Jeff :-)

[@anthonydefreitas6006]

Excellent work as usual Andy. It's good to see preservation taking place so the memory can live on. Is Dave ok? We haven't seen him much in the video's lately.

[@ALWResearchTeam]

Hello Anthony, Dave is great. We are in France together filming a A4 missile series 🚀 :)

[@anthonydefreitas6006]

@@ALWResearchTeam sounds interesting

[@signal98]

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