Ok, we’ll forget the cortina’s and subsequent Ribena’s and get back to the forts.
When were they actually abandoned by the military and their armaments removed.
I remember back in the late 50’s going on a train excursion to Cleethorpes from Edwinstowe one Easter and there was a fort off the coast there, reached by a causeway that was still manned by the military with a full complement of 25 pounders, my old man, being an ex artillery person, actually got us inside, as usual, and we were given a guided tour of the place by the soldiers, I remember it was a stone built structure, probably dating from the time of Napolionic wars and the guns were absolutely gleaming, whatever happened to that as I haven’t been back since.
Incidentally, the old boy wasn’t always succesful at legal entry, we once tried to get round Annesley engine sheds one sunday morning and despite the old boys charm, the shed foreman told us in no uncertain terms to ‘bog off’, at which point the old man called him a miserable b###### and said ‘Ok fetch the police we’re going round anyway as we’ve always done’.
Nothing was done, some nice Brittannias, Pates, Scots and Jubilees in there that day as well, he must have known.
Also had an incident at Langar airfield when we were nearly arrested for photographing Shackletons, but he talked his way out of that as well.
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