This section will be expanded and reorganised in due course, but for now, it just contains a photographic tour of Tower 66, divided into 9 parts.
Before beginning the tour, it may be of interest to read of somebody else's experience of a derelict Martello Tower, (probably no. 63), taken from the Eastbourne Chronicle of September 4, 1937:
"The first impression this massive tower gives is loneliness, for, though there are houses quite near, the desolateness of the beach, the flatness of the land and the silence all contribute to the old-world atmosphere. The entrance is high above the beach and calls for a little climbing up the side of the round base...Once inside the entrance the modern world may be forgotten, and the imagination can stray to the time of Napoleon's threatened invasion. There are two big pits [cistern manholes] in the floor of the tower, so one must go carefully, and it would be foolhardy to walk about in there with no light when darkness falls.
Walking round the middle floor needs care, because of the many holes. And don't walk through a window, either! The drop of over twelve feet would not be pleasant. The top of the tower may be gained by a dark stairway. The top is, of course, in the open air, and a delightful view of the surroundings (bare though they are) is obtained.
An old gun with G.R. IV inscribed on it lies on the floor. It has other initials on it, but they have been made with chalk by other visitors to the tower. True, there is not much to see in the tower other than ruin and cold stone, but the atmosphere lends such a lot. The imagination does the rest."