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2 unusual facts about Shoeburyness


EM-4 rifle

An article on the Burney projects appeared in the International Ammunition Association Journal in 2012 which had pictures from the provisional manual on all the Burney guns that were demonstrated at Shoeburyness in 1944.

Nore

Sea Reach No. 1 Buoy as of 2006 marks the anchorage-point of the former lightship, about mid-way between Shoeburyness in Essex and the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.


Bay of Pigs

:Distinguish from Pig's Bay, the site of a large Ministry of Defence site near Shoeburyness in Essex, England.

Southend Central railway station

It involved the complete refurbishment of the ticket office and toilets and the construction of a new forecourt on the north side of the station (leading to Platform 2 which has Shoeburyness-bound services) opposite the University of Essex Southend Campus, with new steps and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 (DDA) compliant handrails on both sides of the canopy, and a new glass roof and lighting over the bicycle parking area there.

Woodstock Iron Works

The most famed tale of Woodstock`s iron and its impressive quality is that in 1865 the English Admiralty instituted several experiments at Shoeburyness England in order test the resistance of iron plate against heavy ordnance, allegedly in the trial every plate of iron was shattered by the shot fired at it, except for one triple plate made from the Woodstock iron, this piece only sustained an indent, this caused an immediate interest in the product.


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