What beautiful sculptures!
The Maunsell Forts were small fortified towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom. They were designed by Guy Maunsell in 1942 to house anti-aircraft guns and search lights. The forts were decommissioned in the late 1950s and later used for other activities. Nowadays a consortium called Project Redsands is planning to conserve these magnificent remnants.
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How strange these structures are. At first like castles or little cities, then like alien beings. Rusting hulks? but still fascinating.
So weird and other-worldly to see these structures – I had no idea they still existed. I’m with the conservation group trying to save them – they are so symbolic of a past ‘dark age’ and remind me of Marshall McLuen’s idea that all old technology eventually becomes art……