2016

NS2476 : Larkfield AA Battery: gun emplacement

taken 8 years ago, near to Larkfield, Inverclyde, Scotland

Larkfield AA Battery: gun emplacement
Larkfield AA Battery: gun emplacement
The structure just ahead is one of the four surviving gun emplacements; reckoning clockwise in an arc from NW to SE, this is the second of them.

As the Secret Scotland page linked from the end-note explains, two of the gun emplacements have brick-built annexes. This is one of those emplacements; its annex can be seen in the right foreground.

A small building can be seen in the background; it is shown in NS2476 : Larkfield HAA Battery, and is one of the two magazines at the site; for the other, built to the same plan, see NS2476 : Larkfield AA Battery: magazine.
AA Battery Larkfield

See LinkExternal link (at Secret Scotland) for a description of this anti-aircraft battery, whose remains are to the west of the Coves Reservoirs near Gourock and Greenock. Four gun emplacements remain, along with some ancillary buildings. See LinkExternal link (at Canmore) for further information.


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Geographical Context: Derelict, Disused Defence, Military Period: Second World War Primary Subject: Military Relic Ruin: Anti-Aircraft Battery other tags: Local Nature Reserve Coves Community Park Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Gun Emplacements [3] Title Clusters: · Larkfield AA Battery: gun emplacement [2] ·
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NS2476, 233 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Lairich Rig   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Monday, 14 March, 2016   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 31 March, 2016
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 2466 7655 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:56.9936N 4:48.5800W
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OSGB36: geotagged! NS 2466 7654
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West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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