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
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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Geographical Context: Derelict, Disused Defence, Military
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Pillbox [16] · East [13] · Happisburgh Gun Battery [11] Title Clusters: · Happisburgh gun battery - the east gun house [7] ·
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TG3731, 186 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Evelyn Simak   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 30 April, 2014   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 30 April, 2014
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TG 3752 3171 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:49.8313N 1:31.4705E
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TG 3751 3172
View Direction
East-southeast (about 112 degrees)
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