Posts Tagged ‘Hythe’

Kent History Forum photos

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Sound mirrors on the Kent History Forum. There is lots of other good stuff on the site, too.

  • Abbot’s Cliff. Including an aerial photo.
  • Denge. on the last official walk … there was round 300 hundred of us.
  • Fan Hole, near Dover.
  • Hythe.
  • Joss Gap (Kingsgate). Joss bay had two sound mirrors one being a slab, this was cut into the cliff near by the castle keep hotel , now replaced by flats.a slight indentation can still be seen near the top of the cliff. Checking the site where the round mirror was, which was a timber frame rendered. a few years ago the telephone cable blocks were still in place.
  • Warden Point. With a good 1978 photo of it about to go over the cliff.

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Hythe sound mirror in 1976

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

A photograph from Graeme Hartley, taken circa 1976 when I was about 8 years old, showing him with the Hythe Roughs sound mirror when it was in rather better condition than now.

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Hythe and Denge photos

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Some photos of the Hythe and Denge sound mirrors by Keith Allen.

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‘Hidden things to see and do’ from the Observer

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

The sound mirrors - and this website - got a mention in the Observer’s travel section on 5 April 2009. The piece formed part of the Military sites” category in a series about Secret Britain - “All around us lie overgrown and forgotten sites with fascinating stories to tell, says Iain Sinclair”.

Acoustic mirrors, various locations

In the middle of a field in Kilnsea, Yorkshire there is a 15-foot-high concave concrete structure resembling a satellite dish. It’s actually an acoustic (or sound) mirror, used during the first world war to detect enemy engine sounds. They are a common fixture along the British coast, including at Kilnsea (OS map ref: TA 411167), Hythe in Kent (OS map ref: TR138344) and Denge on the Dungeness peninsula (OS map ref: TR070215), which recently featured in the new Prodigy music video, Invaders Must Die.
Source Observer

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Hythe sound mirror pictures

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Paul Sheersmith went to Hythe in Kent on May 7, and took these photos of the sound mirror there.

Hythe Sound mirror (Paul Shearsmith)

Hythe sound mirror

Another correspondent writes with news of about a recent trip to the Hythe sound mirror:

I intended to go for a walk by the military canal near Hythe today, but was diverted by the sight of the mirror still standing above the Pennypot estate - so decided to clamber up there.

Very overgrown near the top - could not walk around the back as the stinging nettles were too high. However fascinating to see - so have been hunting for some more information about them this evening. Remember seeing something on ‘Coast‘ sometime ago.

Thanks for the info and the photos - unfortunately we did not have the camera with us today which is most unusual.


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Mirrors from the railway

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Last weekend I went down to the 80th anniversary celebrations at the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway, and in passing confirmed that it is possible to get a distant glimpse of the 200′ listening ear at Denge from a train, if you know where to look.

The Hythe mirror is rather more clearly visible, and is shown in the background of a painting of the RH&DR’s armoured train which is being sold as a postcard.

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Hythe mirror photos

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Some Easter 2007 photos of the Hythe acoustic mirrors on An English Shooter’s Blog.

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