Fobbing's Ruined Heritage: Wartime Defences & Kynoch's Explosives Works

[@pureboxofscartcables]

Another brilliant video

[@riccioxborrow3061]

Nice to see em and stu.

[@BeyondthePoint]

Absolutely

[@ExploringwithAustinandThomas]

Nice Video 👍 We were there last month, my sister's friend grew up in Fobbing and she told me that her and her brother used to play in that shelter all the time as kids :)

[@BeyondthePoint]

Bunkers are still our playground to this day 😂

[@riccioxborrow3061]

Hi. All. Looks good

[@riccioxborrow3061]

Old farm house. Wow

[@bulldog1066jpd]

Great video..... may just well talk a long walk this bank hol weekend 😊

[@BeyondthePoint]

A good time for it! Start at the manor way roundabout and follow the track north through Oozedam Farm. The decoy is then along a public footpath through the fields

[@bulldog1066jpd]

@@BeyondthePoint Had a wander today was surprised by the amount of concrete and brick from long gone structures along the way..... there must have been considerably more there back in the day....

[@stephencleaves]

Many thanks Liam and Joe, another fascinating and interesting piece on our rich and diverse hidden history, well narrated and documented, always a pleasure to watch. :-)

[@BeyondthePoint]

Thanks again Steve :)

[@burningsandsexploration3711]

Thank you for this! Very interesting. I love Em and Stu. Well done.

[@BeyondthePoint]

Glad you enjoyed it, yeah they are great!

[@51WCDodge]

The making of Cordite and Nitro Glycerine involes a lot of heat from chemical reactions. If the reactions get to hot a 'High Order' event takes place. To you and me a bloody great bang. Water is essential for cooling the process. Nitro was also moved from building to building by gravity on open wooden troughs.

[@danhudson4614]

Until you said butterflies I assumed you had stumbled into a bat sanctury! Great video I live near an old decoy site this is fascinating 👍

[@BeyondthePoint]

Cheers! Great area with a lot of history

[@51WCDodge]

The making of Cordite invloves a lot of heat from chemical reactions, if the reactions get to hot, the result is a 'High Order 'event, to you and me a very large bang. The water is essential for cooling. Nitro Glycerine was also moved from building to building by wooden open air troughs under gravity.

[@Bill-th8kq]

All the land you have just covered was owned by Mobil Oil Company and then BP followed by Petroplus. Since Coryton Refinery closed I'm not sure who owns it now. The farm was looked after by a tenant farmer (his name escapes me) for many years and he used to keep Percheron horses. When he suddenly passed away in about the mid 80's I don't think anyone else took over the farm and it was left to go to ruin. There is more information on Kynoch Town and the munitions factory in a booklet called "Coryton History of a Village" by Winifred N Scott. She was born and raised in Coryton which was demolished when the FCC Complex was built from 1977 onwards. The tall FCC Stack (chimney) which you see today marks the edge of what was the village. The booklet was published by Mobil and for those of us who used to work there it was a fascinating insight into the history of the place.

[@orlandobritain]

nice vid, some good finds. It's a great place to explore, I'm guessing you managed to avoid the cows... (field between abandoned farm and flood barrier)

[@BeyondthePoint]

We certainly did, luckily they were at the other end of the field on this occasion!

[@colinredburn6574]

really enjoyed that, quite fascinating when you bother really look and you find these basically in the middle of nowhere history at its best !!!

[@ACSferrari]

There’s only one ROC and one pill box left on canvey, should do a deep insight on wat tyler which has a hidden tunnel and two hidden pillboxes

[@BeyondthePoint]

Thats right we've checked em all out. The Canvey ROC post is sadly sealed

[@angelabird4794]

Missed you guys popping up stay safe xx

[@BeyondthePoint]

Thanks Angela, haha yep we've had a bit of a gap with the videos to work on the website but it will all be worth it. Stay safe too

[@starfish1852]

This is really interesting and well done. Thank you!

[@BeyondthePoint]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@LisaSargent03]

Absolutely brilliant find. Searching for this would have taken some time.

[@BeyondthePoint]

Hi Lisa great to hear from you, hope you're keeping well! Yes it did take some time to find the Kynochs stuff, had to use the old maps from a CLR book.

[@LisaSargent03]

@@BeyondthePoint Peter Kay to the rescue.

[@terryknights1]

Well done Lads a bit more info that I was unaware of never having ventured as far as Fobbing marsh.

[@BeyondthePoint]

Thanks Terry!

[@Crimetvuk]

You definitely have my attention and gained a new sub 🙂👍🏻

[@BeyondthePoint]

Thank you sir!

[@jamieelliott5205]

Where is this I walk there all the ti E never seen it anywhere