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3: The Maunsell Sea Forts: Iron islands in the Thames

The Town That Knew Too Much

Nov 21, 202227:14Society & Culture

In 1942, an engineer named Guy Maunsell constructed a series of audacious defensive towers out where the Thames estuary meets the North Sea. These structures – known now as the Maunsell Sea Forts – remain to this day, ru...

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3: The Maunsell Sea Forts: Iron islands in the Thames is an episode from The Town That Knew Too Much. In 1942, an engineer named Guy Maunsell constructed a series of audacious defensive towers out where the Thames estuary meets the North Se...

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Published Nov 21, 2022, 27:14 long, audio available.