2024: Flythrough tour of Blue Town, Sheerness, Kent, UK

Описание: A now little known town in Kent, UK was once frequented by the likes of Nelson and Dickens, has been captured in spectacular footage filmed (2 July 2024) with a 360 degree camera.

Former bustling Blue Town on the Isle of Sheppey was the first inhabited area of Sheerness, being the location of Sheerness Royal Dockyard which was formed in the 1660s. The town gets is name as the early shacks that were erected and painted using blue paint taken from the dockyard stores.

Blue Town is surrounded by the giant dockyard wall and was frequented regularly by Nelson, as well as Charles Dickens whose family lived next to a theatre in Blue Town for 3 months back in 1817.

The visual tour starts with the Ravelin wall, a defensive barrier to protect Blue Town, before crossing Bridge Road to the entrance to the port and avenue to historic Sheerness Dockyard Church, which has recently magnificently restored at a cost of £9.5million.

The church is situation next to Naval Terrace a stunning row of Georgian terrace house.

The tour continues through Blue Town high street and the dockyard wall, past one of two giant anchors, before reaching the old County Court House just before the corner - before moving on to the grade II listed Royal Fountain Hotel where Admiral Nelson is reputed to have stayed.

The fly-through tour continues through the various alleyways and side streets past Whelans concrete ornaments and onto the Criterion former music hall and now heritage centre and museum.

After Sheerness Royal Dockyard closed in 1960 and Sheerness expanded with a new town centre established to the east, Blue Town lost its bustle and is barely known even within Kent.