The site of Fort Bridgewoods is on the outskirts of Rochester, Kent next to the Rochester-Maidstone road (B2091). Rochester is a town in Kent, England. It is located within the Unitary authority area of Medway and is at the lowest bridging point of the KENT (1400 AM) is a Radio station broadcasting a Adult Standards/MOR format The site was acquired by the War Office about 1860 to form part of a ring of forts protecting the Royal Dockyard at Chatham.
Building
It was envisaged that the line would stretch from the River Medway to the Thames but a shortage of money meant only five of the original large works plus two small experimental earthen redoubts were built. The River Medway, which is almost entirely in Kent, England, flows for from just inside the West Sussex border to the point where it enters The Thames ( is a major River flowing through southern England. Work — using convict labour —— started 30 years later in 1890 and by that time, the enemy it was supposed to repulse, France was an ally and the enemy was Imperial Germany. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe.
Because of budget restraints and changing fashions in fortifications, no fixed armament was mounted; instead earthen ramps were built to enable field artillery to fire from the fort’s parapet. The fort was of a radical departure from traditional design, of earth construction, with a deep dry moat and designed to blend in with the line of the land. Under the earthen walls were magazines and living quarters.
A new large prison was built on the hill above the nearby village of Borstal to house the workforce. In the United Kingdom, a borstal was a specific kind of youth prison run by the Prison Service and intended to reform seriously Delinquent young people It later became a prison for young offenders and gave its name to the Borstal Institution system of correction. Four of the forts (Luton, Horsted, Bridgewoods and Borstal) were linked by a railway — hauled by convicts — to move building materials between sites. Fort Luton was built between 1876 and 1892 south of Chatham, Kent, England. Fort Borstal was built as an afterthought from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, by convict labour between 1875 and 1885
Building materials were brought by barge up the Medway to a quay at Borstal; they were landed, then hauled by a steam-powered ropeway up the steep scarp slope of the North Downs to Fort Borstal, where they were offloaded onto the railway. The North Downs are a ridge of Chalk hills in south east England that stretch for 120 miles (190 km from Farnham in Surrey to the White Some of the original railway lines can be seen in the cowshed floor of the prison farm, which in a previous incarnation was the railway workshop. The prisoners were accompanied on their labours by armed warders on horseback. The railway remained in use until about 1905.
World wars
After completion until the outbreak of the First World War Fort Bridgewoods was only sporadically garrisoned. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All In the early years of the 20th century the Royal Engineers deliberately mined and blew up one corner of the fort in field exercise. The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers ( RE) and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps With repairs undertaken the fort slipped into obscurity until trials with gun laying radar were undertaken at the Fort in the late 1930s. Gun laying is the process of aiming an Artillery piece The term is also applied to describe the process of aiming smaller calibre weapons by radar or computer control With radar installed, Bridgewoods served as headquarters for anti-aircraft guns in the Thames Estuary with the two flanking forts of Horsted and Borstal being among the most up-to-date anti-aircraft batteries in Britain.
Nuclear age
With the development of the nuclear bomb, new protected headquarters were built at Bridgewoods in the early 1950s. Shortly after completion Anti Aircraft Command was disbanded and the site used for Civil Defence preparation and training. In 1960 the protected headquarters became the regional HQ for London (south) and remained in use until the early 1970s. In 1975 the site was sold to a property developer who quickly demolished the fort and bunker. The site remained empty for a number of years and is now a Parcelforce depot. Parcelforce Worldwide, part of Royal Mail Group Ltd, is one of the top five express parcel carriers in the UK.
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