2014
TG3731 : Happisburgh gun battery - the east gun house
taken 10 years ago, near to Ostend, Norfolk, England
Happisburgh gun battery - the east gun house
The stairway (blocked) leading to the underground rooms can be seen at right. During WW2 Happisburgh was heavily defended: in 1940, a 6-inch coastal battery was built on the cliff top but it was abandoned again in the same year, when a 4.7-inch battery was built nearby. The two gun houses and their underground rooms, a pillbox and spigot mortar pedestals survive. The battery was surrounded by a rectangular barbed wire enclosure. An outer barbed wire circuit included the searchlights and ancillary buildings. The two coast artillery searchlights were positioned in concrete housings recessed into the cliff top.
During the Cold War, the Royal Observer Corps used the site and an Orlit post was built (since destroyed).
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