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7:23Now PlayingThe Island of Foulness off the Essex coast has been used by the British Army since the 1800s as a site to run training exercises and test munitions. For the small number of civilians who live there, life involves carrying an identity card, security screening for their visitors, and even military restrictions for wedding photographers.
Tonight reporter, Cathal O’Shannon, applied for a permit and came to take a look around.
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC One, 15 April 1965.
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