RINGBROUGH Farm and Battery East Yorkshire. Join us in our fight against erosion (2024)
Автор: Mickey "The View" Moo
Загружено: 2024-09-04
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"The Battery Observation Post (BOP) tower, which originally stood approximately 115m inland from the cliff edge in 1946, collapsed down the cliff in 2010 and now lies on its side on the foreshore below the high tide mark, and the eroded and fragmentary remains of three gun emplacements are close to the low-tide mark.
"The four buildings that survive include a ‘lozenge’ pillbox, the Battery Plotting Room, the combined Blacksmith’s Shop, Workshop and Royal Artillery Store, and the Gun Store."
The battery was more than 300ft from the edge when it was built in 1941 to stop shells being fired from enemy ships at Hull. But it went up too late to serve its real purpose.
A second line of heavy anti-aircraft guns – long since lost to the North Sea – was then built in front of them to act as a defence against feared V1 “Doodlebugs”.
A few minutes' walk down the beach is another WW2 remnant - a pillbox - one of a series of small fortified structures built along the coast as a part of British anti-invasion preparations.
Related topics:East Yorkshire
With special thanks to Brian Williams for his research . Please refer to https://urbanrim.org.uk/Ringbrough.htm for extra content and details.
Production: Mickey Moo
Music by Maria Davis
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