Slough Fort Guided Tours
- 5 May 2025
- 10:45am
- £5
- Allhallows
Join us for a guided tour of Slough Fort. Tours take you around the fort, inside the museum, up on the roof and ending in the underground magazine. All attendees must gather at the Haven pedestrian gate at 10.45am for a prompt start of the tour at 11am. Parking is within the Haven site, report to security upon entering the site and they will direct you to the car park adjacent to their shop, the entrance is just a short walk from there. The post code for the car park is ME3 9QD, if using what 3 words please use chosen.spark.iron. Do not go to the fort gates along the Brimp track
Slough fort is a charity and community project that is restoring the fort built to defend the Thames Estuary.
During the mid 19th century Britain and France found themselves in a ‘Cold War’.
As a result of the French building a new fleet of modern steam and sail ironclads, armed with the new rifled guns, and their building of a new naval port at Cherbourg, the public faith in the Royal Navy to protect the country from a possible invasion was low. Britain’s fleet was still the same type of ships that had beaten the French at Trafalgar in 1805.
The British response was a ‘crash’ naval building programme to out build the French with ironclad warships armed with rifled guns, to improve naval bases and to start a massive national scheme to upgrade the coastal defences.
Slough Fort at Allhallows was built as part of this programme.