Posts Tagged ‘Warden Point’
Warden Point sound mirror on YouTube
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Warden Point mirror before the collapse
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Paul Prior has supplied an old photograph, possibly taken circa 1969-70, showing the sound mirror at Warden Point near Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey.
The picture was taken before the cliffs were eroded so far that the mirror fell onto the beach below, which is thought to have happened in about 1978-79.
The mirror is on the extreme left of the picture. The design is similar to the mirrors at Selsey and in the northeast, suggesting a First World War date for its construction.
Acoustic mirrors at Our Past History
Thursday, July 19th, 2007Our Past History has a detailed article on sound mirrors, and another page covering the ruins of the mirror, pillboxes and other military remains at Warden’s Bay on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.
Warden Point sea defences
Friday, July 7th, 2006Now the bad news. Greg writes from Warden Bay:
a bit concerned about the future of our sound mirror. Basically government funding has now been sourced to install a rock sea defence along the bottom of the cliff to stop it eroding (probably the same as at Bartons Point, Minster). This would go along the beach to near where the mirror is located, but I would hate to see it buried in the rocks. The mirror is something quite historic, and has become a local landmark, often known as the “listening ear”. … I haven’t seen the plan for the proposed works or the impact they would have on the mirror, and don’t know whether it has any kind of preservation order on it.
Wouldn’t it be great if, while they have huge machines on the beach, if the mirror could be moved up the beach a bit, so as to ebate its decay in the sea?
Oh, by the way, the “cracked” thing was done by an artist(?) who did this sort of stuff all round the island! A waste of time if you ask me - all that effort would have been far more useful maybe erecting a plaque or something to explain, to the hundreds of people who use the beach, exactly what the concrete remains used to be, and how they played a vital part in our history.
