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During the 1930’s the Bawdsey peninsula became home to the first Chain Home Radar Station and training school for Britain’s new top secret weapon 'Radar Direction Finding' Equipment, this ground breaking installation required additional security and led to the development of a series of Defence improvements of which the Bawdsey Emergency Coastal Defence Battery was an integral part of the Emergency Coastal Defence Programme (ECDP) despite initial concerns that any ECDP Battery positioned at Bawdsey would be liable to flooding, the fact that the peninsulas coastline was so vulnerable led to a Battery being built and in use by February 1942 even though the threat of Invasion had now passed.
Two Naval BL 6in MkVII Guns on PVII Mountings, No.1 Gun manufactured in 1918 and No.2 Gun in 1918, which had a 180 degree firing arc able to be trained on any point at sea almost due North to due South. Both Guns were salvaged from World War One Battleships broken up on decommissioning after the war. The Emergency Coastal Defence Battery consised of two Gun Emplacements with reinforced concrete roofs (removed sometime after 1971) with attached Magazines and Machine Housing. On either side of the Coastal Battery were two Coastal Artillery Searchlights (CASL) with two Projectors MkV (AA) 90cn Reflectors and a 22kw Lister 38hp diesel engine, placed in concrete Emplacements, which have since been lost to coastal erosion.
The Coastal Battery followed the basic layout, an enclosed structure with concrete roofs which included Crew Shelters and Ammunition Stores all of which were connected by covered passages, the entire Emplacement was designed with Small Arms Loopholes to provide a 360° arc of Defensive Fire. The Coastal Battery Observation Post was a concrete Slit Trench between the two Guns probably with a buried Landline to the Fire Control Tower which was a four story building, the basement was prone to flooding, and appears not to have been used, the ground floor was used as the Armoury, this was Defended by all round Loopholes. The first floor was the Switch / Telephone Room, the top floor housed the Rangefinder Equipment (a Naval Barr and Stroud 9ft, Type FQ 11 No 1544, Magnification x 28) and also had a 360° field of view, which is covered by an Armoured Steel Roof that was originally supported by corner posts.
Gunners from 322 Battery Royal Artillery were transferred from other Defences at Foulness and once operational the Coastal Battery would have had at least 80 Gunners on duty at any one time. In December 1943 with the threat of Invasion now highly unlikely and with trained manpower being desperately needed elsewhere, the Gunners of 322 were transferred to other duties leaving only one Officer and seven Regular Gunners to run the Coastal Battery assisted by members of the Home Guard.
Geographically the Coastal Battery is very isolated which Military planners recognised, the Coastal Battery Gunners knew this and knew that in the case of an attack the expectation was that they should Defend the Coastal Battery to the last man.
The following Defence Mechanisms are known to have been in place in support of the Coastal Battery :-
> 2 x Unrotated Projectile (UP) Anti-Aircraft Rocket Projectors, an experimental Naval Weapon which had proved totally unreliable and ineffective in operation prompting its withdrawal from Royal Navy service. One was located to the South of the Coastal Battery with the second being located to the West
> Northwest of the Coastal Battery there were two Weapon Pits both designed to hold ten Men (one armed with a Bren Light Machine Gun) and a Spigot Mortar
> West of the Coastal Battery there was a single Weapon Pit also holding a ten Men Crewing another Spigot Mortar and a single MG-30 Solothurn Machine Gun (the predecessor to the German MG34)
> South of the Coastal Battery in the Martello Tower were a further 11 men one of whom was armed with a Bren LMG.
> A further 22 Personnel armed with Rifles and two more Bren Light Machine Guns formed a Mobile Reserve patrolling out of reserve Shelters
> The nearest significant number of men in support were based at Bawdsey Manor whilst all Defensive Posts were manned by volunteers from the 5th Battalion, the Suffolk Home Guard.
Within an area behind the Coastal Battery which was populated with trees there were a series of Nissen huts used as Barracks, a Mess, Storage Buildings and other Camp Buildings.
Geographically the Coastal Battery is very isolated which Military planners recognised.
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Corner of Sitka, Alaska
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This shelter is at the edge of the park, seemingly far from prying eyes but in actual fact it's right next to the road
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Luxembourg - April 2011
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Luxembourg - April 2011
I'm not quite sure how I managed to mess these up to quite this extent. I was trying to catch some of the sparse scattering of people seeing in the new year on the Millennium Bridge as I headed for home last night. What the HECK HAVE I DONE? I am still not used to the quick'n'dirty short exposure work, unfortunately, and this time it let me down completely. I used a few quite heavy filters on them to try and extract at least something but - no.
However, they may be disasters, but they are disasters with a memory. A moment. London was as eerily silent as it always seems to be right now as the hours ticked towards midnight. And when I arrived at the Thames on my bike, there were just small knots of people watching the laser lightshow from the Shard. Small, isolated groups, some just watching, some celebrating quietly in their own little worlds. I suppose in a way, these weird photos with their festering toxic skies and grainy ruined textures fit the mood of this most horrendous of new years - horrendous in more ways than just the lockdown etc. That's why I wanted to keep them, in spite of them being by far the worst quality photos I ever uploaded!
In The Company of Wolves - Fashion Show
Sub Club, Glasgow 26/10/2011
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Today I parked in Glynde and then climbed Beddingham Hill to the radio masts and walked the SDW to Alfriston and then on to Berwick and Alciston past Charleston Farm and Firle Place into Firle and then Back to Glynde. This was about 17.5 miles and very windy on the tops but in the afternoon the sea mist rolled over the downs. there was lots to see and so a great variety of images. One of the images taken especially for www.flickr.com/photos/mandywillard/
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Luxembourg - April 2011