Tower 64 today, stands just above the high tide mark, and was said to be in no danger from the sea in 1873. Although safe for the time being, the tide is fast eroding the shingle in front of the tower.
Tower 64 was auctioned off along with Tower 65 by Weatherall and Green on behalf of the War Department on June 28, 1910. 8 ½ acres of land went with the tower, which was at that time about 100 yards from the sea.
Tower 64 still retains its original gun carriage, the cannon having been dismounted to allow the concrete roof to have been constructed by the Royal Engineers in 1940. The cannon, dated 1829, lay outside the tower until 1968 when it was removed, and may be one of those mounted in the Cannon Camping Park not far away.
The roof area was divided up into four seperate rooms by concrete blast walls. Two concrete blocks were placed on the firestep to allow a machine gun to be set up on each. The windows and original door were filled in and smaller gun ports made, a machine gun mount still in place in the east window.
Girders were fixed into the walls below the windows in 1940 to provide platforms for the machine gun crews, the original wooden floor having rotted or been removed.
The tower is unusual in that it has no enclosed magazine area, although there is evidence that internal brickwork has been removed.
The sea wall in the magazine was actually knocked through to allow winching equipment to be installed around the central pillar to allow local fishermen to launch and beach their boats. It was so used until the 1970's, but now stands empty, awaiting restoration in conjunction with the marina development.
One of the four original boundary stones that marked out the land that belonged to the tower was still in place until 1998, when it was removed during bulldozing operations to expand the Sovereign Harbour.
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