Peter Hibbs: The South Coast Martello Towers

For more than two centuries Martello Towers have stood guard over the coast of Kent, Essex, Suffolk and Sussex. Using archive records and his own photographs, Peter Hibbs will describe how the towers outlived many invasion scares and he charts the towers at Rye, Rye Harbour and Pett Level.

A virtual tour illustrates the ingenious design and construction of these curious structures.