Grain Tower Battery - HD Drone Footage - DJI Mavic 2 Pr

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : In this drone video, AirVuz contributor and pilot John Livesey treats to an aerial view of a little-known bit of 19th century history on the coast of Southeastern England. It's a landmark known as the Grain Elevator Battery, an artillery emplacement just off shore of County Kent, near the mouth of the River Medway. It was completed in 1855, during a period of time when Great Britain was concerned about a potential cross-Channel invasion from France. Later adapted to combat German torpedo boats, it's been abandoned since 1959.

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HD Footage of Grain Tower Battery in Kent taken from when the South East UAV Owners met up in November 2019. Grain Tower is a mid-19th-century gun tower situated offshore just east of Grain, Kent, standing in the mouth of the River Medway. It stands about 500 metres (1,600 ft) offshore at the eastern tip of the Isle of Grain, where the mouth of the Medway meets the Thames. It was constructed on the tidal sandbank of Grain Spit and is reached by a causeway running in an east-west direction from the shoreline. Its location enabled the tower's arc of fire to overlap with that of the guns at Garrison Point on the Isle of Sheppey, on the other side of the Medway