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
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