Industrial Britain

Post by **Thebusofwoe** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 12:56 pm

I recently visited an old WW2 Anti aircraft gunnery position up in Yorkshire.

Right next to the old Castle Hill. AfAIK its the only one left in existence and is grade 2 listed. I will upload some pics now . . . .

Post by **Donald** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 1:09 pm

Nice pics Fons

Post by **Thebusofwoe** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 1:58 pm

Here we are. Found them

. The 2 gun placement areas are all still there, but filled with rubble and bush. The iron/steel anchor points are still there too!!

. The storage bunkers/rooms are flooded but we managed to get on the roof of it

. The anti personnel gun holes/points are still in the main building too!! Small but cool place

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 2:02 pm

We have quite a few of those over here in Newhaven, I remember playing manhunt around them with my mates when I was a kid

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 2:44 pm

I've managed to turn LG into an urbex forum!

(Seriously though, in a hundred years time, someone will stumble on this forum in the internet archive and wonder WTF was going on?!

)

Fons[DutchGuy] · Post by **Fons[DutchGuy]** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 4:52 pm

Donald wrote:Nice pics Fons

Thanks, noticed the pics don't show, fix that after dinner (no more flickr for me...)

Anti aircraft thing is cool man!

Post by **Lude-dude** » Mon Jan 06, 2014 10:02 am

channel islands is great for this, you can jump around in the Nazi bunkers etc..

around here we have corsham cave's, which are quite easy to get lost in if you don't know them

and they go for miles

think its part of that underground city the MOD recently disclosed

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Mon Jan 06, 2014 11:03 pm

Lude-dude wrote:channel islands is great for this, you can jump around in the Nazi bunkers etc..

One of my uncles was a German prisoner on Alderney and spent over a year pouring concrete.

The listening ears near Dungeness are pretty cool ...

... and I also like the ships' graveyard at Purton:-

Post by **Thebusofwoe** » Mon Jan 06, 2014 11:07 pm

/\ That's cool.

Those listening ears something to do with the war I guess??

prelude91 · Post by **prelude91** » Mon Jan 06, 2014 11:14 pm

early radar system to fend off the Luftwaffe, I also agree, Channel Islands are superb and Normandy beaches, American cemetery and first war somme area are all unmissable