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Red Sands Radio Fort

'Hidden Britain by Drone'

Issue: 1 Updated: 14th May 2020

Filming to camera with the Windfall Films and Spider Aerial Filming for Channel 4 Television (UK) on 4th May 2018

Channel 4 Programme Flyer

Brand New off the slips 'Pelican's' first voyage to Queenborough

Old Sheerness Dock entrance

Tug 'Switzer Vale' surveying dockside waters

Sheerness Port with Switzer Tugs 'Harty', 'Vale' and 'Victory'

Switzer Tugs 'Harty' and 'Vale'

Switzer Tugs 'Victory' and 'Vale'

Estuary Services 'Escort' Pilot Vessel

James Coldwell and Toby

Support vessel 'Dementer' (Queenborough)

Generator transfer from 'Dementer'

X-Pilot underway

X-Pilot approaches Red Sands Forts

Red Sands Forts looking towards the Kentish Flats windfarm

Red Sands Forts looking towards the Kentish Flats windfarm

Red Sands Forts Bofors Tower out of view

Red Sands Forts; Gun 1, Control, Gun 2, 3 & 4 top Bofors Tower

Gun 1 with Red Sands Radio collapsed Antenna

'Dementer' makes her approach

Cobelfret Ro-Ro Ferry

Service from Purfleet by the Dartford Crossing to Zeebrugge, Vlisslingen and Rotterdam with French Flamant class Patrol Vessel 'Cormoran' P677

'Dementer' drone preparation

Drone Airbourne

X-Pilot arrives at Red Sands Forts

X-Pilot alongside Gun Tower #1

Intermediate bulkhead Light Swith intermediate level

X-Pilot cruises between Red Sand Fort Towers

Aerial view of the seven Tower Red Sands Fort complex

Note figure at Boiler Room window ...

... Bob's in the Boiler Room

The floor is wafer thin, I was standing on the pipework and clinging on for dear life!

Bob on the walkway of Southern Gun Tower 1

Departing Red Sands Fort looking Eastwards

Saga Cruise Ship 'Magellan' with Medway Pilot 'Escort' - Cruise and Ship Detail

Production Crew - Ben Shephard, Mike Bishop, James Caldwell and Toby, Naomi and Emma

Windfall Films 1-20 Slinger Street, London, EC2A 4BQ

Spider Aerial Filming

Tony Pine, Susan Pine & Dick Dixon at Beltinge (3rd May 2018)

The TV programme focused primarily on Red Sands and the Radio Stations that broadcast from there, the production crew did chat with Tony, Sue and Dick the previously about their involvement and time on Radio Sutch and City

The remote end of Herne Bay Pier from Beltinge (3rd May 2018)

With thanks to Ben, Mike and Toby Spider Aerial Filming for the drone photographs

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