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Fireplace in bunker in gun-emplacement in round barrow see SU0669 : Round Barrow with WW2 gun emplacement, north of West Down.... (more)

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Entrance to bunker in gun-emplacement in round barrow, see SU0669 : Round Barrow with WW2 gun emplacement, north of West Down.... (more)

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Entrance to Second World War gun emplacement in round barrow, see also... (more)

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Bronze Age round barrow with Second World War gun emplacement.... (more)

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Bronze Age round barrow with Second World War gun emplacement.... (more)

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See the main item: NS3377 : The ruins of Murrays (AA Battery Cardross). This is the last of six ruins of Second World... (more)

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See the main item: NS3377 : The ruins of Murrays (AA Battery Cardross). Visible here, just left of centre, is the fifth... (more)

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See the main item: NS3377 : The ruins of Murrays (AA Battery Cardross). This is the fourth of six ruins of Second World... (more)

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See the main item: NS3377 : The ruins of Murrays (AA Battery Cardross). This is the third of six ruins of Second World... (more)

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See the main item: NS3377 : The ruins of Murrays (AA Battery Cardross). This is the second of six ruins of Second World... (more)

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On large-scale OS mapping, this area is marked "gun site". The remains... (more)

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The entrance to this gun emplacement. This emplacement is one of two built in... (more)

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Reckoning from north to south, this is the second of four gun emplacements at... (more)

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Reckoning from north to south, this is the third of four gun emplacements at the... (more)

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This is the most southerly of the four gun emplacements at the site. On the page... (more)

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This is the most northerly of the four gun emplacements at the site; on the page... (more)

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This emplacement is one of two built in 1941 each was equipped with a six inch... (more)

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See the main item: NS3377 : The ruins of Murrays (AA Battery Cardross). Working in a clockwise direction, and... (more)

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These are the ammunition ready lockers note that the doors to the lockers have... (more)

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This emplacement is one of two built in 1941 each was equipped with a six inch... (more)

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This emplacement is one of two built in 1941 each was equipped with a six inch... (more)

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This is the mounting for the six inch naval gun that was installed in 1941 when... (more)

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The entrance to one of two WWII 6" gun emplacements built to defend the... (more)

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One of two WWII 6" gun emplacements overlooking the Bristol Channel.

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Blacknor Battery observation post was built in 1940-41, to defend the coastline... (more)

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This is the same area as shown in NS2690 : Remains of gun emplacements, viewed in the opposite direction.... (more)

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Built in 1941 this emplacement was built to protect the port of Bristol from... (more)

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This is a closer look at the emplacement shown and described here: NS3377 : Murrays - first gun emplacement.... (more)

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The Command Post (or Operation Room, as a notice on the building calls it) is at... (more)

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The boxes built into the wall of this emplacement were used to store fused... (more)

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A WWII defensive position.

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When I was a young teenager I walked down the cliff using the stairs now lying... (more)

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Nigg was a WWII coastal battery with two gun emplacements. This is the western... (more)

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The gun emplacement lies within the Rubha nan Sasan coastal battery.

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The remains of a WW2 anti-aircraft gun emplacement. This faces ENE and was... (more)

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Looking towards one of the second world war gun emplacements to the other.

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Another view of the structure seen in NU2511 : Old battery, Alnmouth Links.

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There are at least two of these old gun emplacements in this square - for the... (more)

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See NS3377 : Murrays - sixth gun emplacement, where the same wall is visible. The River Clyde is visible... (more)

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See: NS3377 : Murrays - fifth gun emplacement. This photo shows a closer view of the interior.

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On the former Sinah AA Gunsite, Sinah Common; one of two surviving emplacements,... (more)

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See: NS3377 : Murrays - third gun emplacement. This is a view over the wall and towards the opening on the... (more)

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The north flank of Brean Down was the setting for a row of six, brick-sheltered,... (more)

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A battery is recorded on this site from c.1780. Towards the end of the 19th... (more)

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One of many WW2 'pillboxes' (gun emplacements) on the marshes along... (more)

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Two large concrete polygons lie on the shingle close to what looks like a... (more)

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Set in a former gun emplacement on a promontory commanding a great view of the... (more)

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Light Anti Aircraft guns I think.

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See J4972 : Old buildings, Newtownards aerodrome – January 2008. A more recent view of the former machine-gun... (more)

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See J4972 : Old buildings, Newtownards aerodrome – January 2008. A more recent view of the former machine-gun... (more)

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