What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Denis Sweeney]

Graham, thanks for the comment, the bumper is standard height, just bad use of a mobile phone camera!
Bob, we were at Minster on the Isle of Sheppey about 20 miles from home. The island is about half way along the North Kent coastline, the coastline opposite just beyond Shoeburyness turns northwards up into the North Sea, so this area is about the end of the Thames Estuary some 30 to 40 miles east of London.
The ships steer a clear path from this area as there is a no go area all around the wreck of the SS Montgomery which is lying just off the coast of the Island between Sheerness and Minster. Even at high tide the masts and part of the super structure used to stand clear of the water. The SS Montgomery was a Liberty ship carrying around 70,000 tons of high explosives when in 1940’s she holed up in a storm but dragged her anchor and came to rest on a sand bar and could not be re-floated. She then broke her back and fell into two sections and has lain there ever since complete with her cargo. There is great concern as to her fate as no one can go in as everything is now breaking up and no one seems to know what will happen to the cargo.
As someone used to say “not many people know that……”