********** Well done to Jim4545 FTF in under 2 hours from publication **********
Lots to look at from here including the comings and going from the Port of Felixstowe and also you can see a different country - not Holland but Sealand an self-styled country on the old WW2 fort of which is on the horizon (see also below)
During the First World War, a fortified coastal defence battery named Brackenbury Fort was built on what was then left of the very cliff on which Walton Castle had once stood. Brackenbury formed part of the defensive network around Harwich harbour in both World Wars. In 1942, it was provided with a forward defence in the shape of a sea-fort of the type called Churchill Towers. This was an offshore gun-platform built on two columns standing on the submerged offshore sandbank of Rough Sands. In clear weather this can still be seen from the shore. The guns at Brackenbury Fort were removed in 1952 but the fort itself continued as a bulwark against coastal erosion until Felixstowe Town Council regrettably demolished it with difficulty in 1969.
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