30/03/1997 Coastal battery, with engine house, magazine, and searchlight. Armament - 2 x 4ins naval guns (replaced in 1942 by 2 x 6ins guns plus electrically detonated rockets. Manned by 561 Regt. RA (Maj. G. D. Copley) , then by Home Guard under Lt. R. G. Lawson. Most of the site has now fallen into the sea, and little remains. 15/9/16 Shown on the 1961 1:2500 OS map.
Coast Artillery Battery
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Coastal Battery
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Type COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY
Status Removed
Condition Removed
Source Defence of Britain Archive
Access Unknown
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Coast Artillery Battery On the slag bank of an old iron works, at North Side, N of the estuary of the River Derwent and Work Coastal Battery Unknown Removed BunkerAtlas historical bunker military heritage