Reports - Shotley
HMS Ganges
Where? Ipswich, Suffolk. Photos 84. Comments 101. Posted 11 August 2006.
HMS Ganges is situated on the Shotley Peninsula in Suffolk. It used to be a training camp for the Navy until 1976, and in later years it was a police training school. It closed in 1998 or something.
At the start of 2006 the site was subject to a controversial planning war - some developers want to build a ton of homes etc on the site, but locals don't want that. In July the Secretary of State intervened and rejected all plans!
HMS Ganges revisited
Where? Ipswich, Suffolk. Photos 50. Comments 29. Posted 17 October 2006.
Since my visit in February, it has been decided not to turn the site into houses. But there are now rumours that the whole place will be demolished in November. With this in mind, a return trip was planned (with Abo and Speed).
Our main aim was to look the fort and try and get into the swimming pool. Annoyingly we didn't manage to do either. That said, we still had a fantastic little explore of the place.
