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KingElvis
21-09-2010, 10:24 AM
I know to most this looks like a few slabs of concrete in a field but I find these sites very interesting.

What we have here is an early 1940s Heavy Anti-Aircraft installation which is in super condition. There’s also supposed to be a POW camp here but I found little evidence of this.

The emplacement would have housed two guns, probably 3.7` and would have been used to target high altitude bombers in WW2. A few of these sites had a life after the war but I seriously doubt this was one of them. The two gun positions are directly in front of a formidable concrete bunker and have sloping concrete trenches that lead down to the ammo store. The ammo store is semi-sunken to protect it from blast damage.

Well worth a look if you’re out that way.


The first building you see, probably a garage or maybe accomodation for the staff manning the site. The doors make me think garage or other stores.

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/military/Hudersfield%20HAA%20Battery/DSCF4460640x480.jpg

The concrete roads are original and are still in good condition.

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/military/Hudersfield%20HAA%20Battery/DSCF4461640x480.jpg

The gun positions themselves have been used to store stones, maybe for dry stone walling.

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/military/Hudersfield%20HAA%20Battery/DSCF4462640x480.jpg

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/military/Hudersfield%20HAA%20Battery/DSCF4463640x480.jpg

Some detail is still on show, notice the brick structure to the left?

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/military/Hudersfield%20HAA%20Battery/DSCF4464640x480.jpg

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/military/Hudersfield%20HAA%20Battery/DSCF4465640x480.jpg

These are the sloping channels which lead to the ammo store. It's knee deep in cow shite.

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/military/Hudersfield%20HAA%20Battery/DSCF4467640x480.jpg

The ammunition store.

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/military/Hudersfield%20HAA%20Battery/DSCF4468640x480.jpg

The command bunker. two level type. You can get in the top but the bottom floor has been sealed up.

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/military/Hudersfield%20HAA%20Battery/DSCF4469640x480.jpg

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/military/Hudersfield%20HAA%20Battery/DSCF4474640x480.jpg

This is a mounting a for Vickers Predictor, a tripod mounted gun sight for aiming at high altitudes. Radio must've been used to relay the reading down to the guns.

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/military/Hudersfield%20HAA%20Battery/DSCF4470640x480.jpg

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/military/Hudersfield%20HAA%20Battery/DSCF4471640x480.jpg

The original concrete road to the site.

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj20/tmole99/military/Hudersfield%20HAA%20Battery/DSCF4476640x480.jpg

Thanks for looking and sorry to bore you all with this stuff LOL :thumb

ERNIE99_UK
21-09-2010, 11:25 AM
Thats pretty interesting, theres supposed to be another one near where i live too.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=flockton&sll=53.617186,-1.772774&sspn=0.001591,0.004823&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Flockton,+Wakefield,+Kirklees,+United+Kingdo m&ll=53.649007,-1.634935&spn=0.003339,0.009645&t=h&z=17

converse1
21-09-2010, 11:27 AM
Well I never knew this was there! good stuff!

Munchh
21-09-2010, 06:05 PM
Thanks for this. I never get bored of looking at WW2 military stuff. Got a grid ref for that KingElvis?