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This event held at the Ironworks has been run for a number of years now and is an enjoyable day out. Yesterday saw many people attending, particularly 'toggers'.
"Constructed to act as a defence of the city of Calais.
After the taking of Calais by the English (1346) sluices were constructed to contain water defences. A fort was built to protect them in 1525).
In case of attack the defenders of the fort could destroy the sluices, flooding the area of Calais and repelling attack.
In January 1558, the troops of the Duc de Guise attacked the fort, the sluices were not destroyed and Calais was freed."
Golden Hill Fort was a defensible barracks built as part of the Palmerston defences by the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom to provide manpower to man the defences at the western end of the Isle of Wight. The Fort is a local landmark which is in a very prominent position overlooking much of the land looking south towards Afton Down.
The building, which is a Grade 1 Listed Building, is now in private ownership and not open to the public. It was derelict and had not been unused for many years, passing through numerous owners. Planning consent was granted in 2003 for conversion to residential use, with the litsed building consent updated in 2007. Golden Hill Fort is currently being converted 18 luxury houses by Golden Hill Homes Ltd and was due to be completed around February/March 2010.
The surrounding land is open to the public. It is managed as a country park by the Isle of Wight Council, and is an open grassland with bridleways, viewpoints and a small car park.
"Golden Hill Fort" was also a memorable place used for large raves and organised parties starting from the early 1990s.
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Defence Policy Advisors from NATO Troop Contributing Nations attend a demonstration and display at Adazi Military Base
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A World War Two Pillbox variant constructed in 1940 within the Anti-Aircraft Training Camp at Weybourne, a large square emplacement, approximately measuring 21ft 3in, built from brickwork shuttering and poured concrete, with chamfered corners. There is a combination of embrasures / loopholes, stepped embrasures suitable for light machine gun use, and narrow loopholes for rifle use. The rear sandbag lined entrance is off-set to the right, this had overhead protection and a loophole to the left. There were slit trenches and other defences constructed around the fixed defences. I've not visited the pillbox close, but the condition looks fair, with some of the brickwork falling away.
The site of the World War Two and post war Weybourne Anti-Aircraft Training Camp located alongside the cliffs at Weybourne to the north west of the village. The camp originally started out as a temporary summer camp for the Anti-Aircraft Division of the Territorial Army in 1935. At first the majority of the camp consisted of wooden and tented structures, although in 1937 it was decided to make the camp permanent and more fixed structures and defences were erected. The camp closed in 1959. During World War Two the camp was surrounded by a perimeter Anti-Tank Ditch and defended by a system of Gun Emplacements and Barbed Wire obstructions. The interior of the camp consisted of groups of Nissen huts and barracks and other military buildings. The cliff top to the north was covered by a line of Heavy Anti-Aircraft Guns and Batteries, Slit Trenches and Pillboxes.
RAF Weybourne was a World War Two Anti-Aircraft Establishment, ''X'' Flt, No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-Operation Unit were based at the station between 16th May and 14th September 1939, with ''T'' Flt, No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-Operation Unit there between 25th February and 29th April 1942. No. 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-Operation Unit were based there between 7th December 1942 and 30th November 1943. Associated with the Anti-Aircraft Gunnery, the station operated the De Havilland DH-82B Queen Bee target drone aircraft, a radio-controlled target tug version of the Tiger Moth II.
Although the published closure date known for this airfield relates to the World War Two airfield, the Army maintained an Anti-Aircraft Training Camp across from RAF Weybourne using Bofors 40mm Anti-Aircraft Guns linked to AA4 Mk.7 Gun-Laying Radar. When that closed in 1958 the radars were transferred to the RAF. A very small permanent detachment was maintained there using the obsolete radar into the 1980's for cross-tell training, decoy work and to extend low level coverage. In the late 1980's, after the obsolete radars were removed, trials were carried out to confirm the site's suitability for deployment of the new mobile radars that were coming into service.
A Marconi Type 91 ''Martello'' radar was moved from RAF Trimingham to Weybourne in September 1996, operated by 432 Signals Unit acting as a Ready Platform (along with RAF Hopton and RAF Trimingham) for the IUKADGE Series II (United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment) Radar System controlled from the R3 Underground Control Centre at RAF Neatishead. In October 1997 the Type 91 at RAF Weybourne was de-built, replaced when the Type 93 at RAF Trimingham became operational.
Information sourced from -
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Weybourne
www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?ui...
Joint press conference with John Healey (Secretary of Defence, United Kingdom), Rustem Umerov (Minister of Defence, Ukraine) and Boris Pistorius (Minister of Defence, Germany)