I use to explore regularly in Lincolnshire, but not been for years, but been twice this year already. Me and man gone wrong we’re coming back from another site and decided to pop in here on the way home. He had never been before, and I went ten years ago, but always fancied a return visit. We parked up and took the stroll to the site. A nice relaxed visit this one, and to me a very enjoyable one as it’s one of the best gun batteries around.
Construction of this gun battery was built in 1940 to protect the Humber and prob the docks at Grimsby. It was armed with standard 3.7 inch guns in concrete reinforced pits. Sadly the German Luftwaffe could fly above the reach of the smaller guns. The AA command decided that new gun pits was needed which would house 5.2 guns which could fire up to 43,000 feet, above the 40,000 feet that the German Luftwaffe could fly at. Each pit was fitted with a raised walkway, the crews could operate the guns from there, each pit had ammunition lockers around the back of the walkway. Each pit had a sunken engine room, this housed the hydraulic machinery to operate the guns. In the middle of the site is a sunken command post made of concrete blocks and a concrete roof. This is only one of six surviving pits in the country. After the war it was kept as a fully operational gun battery, but was decommissioned in the mid fifties when all the remaining gun pits were decommissioned. The site was later used to house an ROC post from 1961.
Starting off with the two pits to the left of the command post.
You can still see the footprint in the concrete wall were a corrugated crew room would have been, similar to a Nissen hut.
Steps leading to the raised operating platform and ammunition lockers.
The pits are quite boggy.
Each one had an observation post.
Heading to the command post, The original doors are backfilled.
The command post reminds of the one at HAA Lound near me. The one at Lound had lovely glass bricks to let in light.
What I think were the male and female latrine blocks.
And heading to the other two gun pits.
The engine room, were the other two had been back filled these were still open. This one still has the original doors in situ.
Both were flooded.
Construction of this gun battery was built in 1940 to protect the Humber and prob the docks at Grimsby. It was armed with standard 3.7 inch guns in concrete reinforced pits. Sadly the German Luftwaffe could fly above the reach of the smaller guns. The AA command decided that new gun pits was needed which would house 5.2 guns which could fire up to 43,000 feet, above the 40,000 feet that the German Luftwaffe could fly at. Each pit was fitted with a raised walkway, the crews could operate the guns from there, each pit had ammunition lockers around the back of the walkway. Each pit had a sunken engine room, this housed the hydraulic machinery to operate the guns. In the middle of the site is a sunken command post made of concrete blocks and a concrete roof. This is only one of six surviving pits in the country. After the war it was kept as a fully operational gun battery, but was decommissioned in the mid fifties when all the remaining gun pits were decommissioned. The site was later used to house an ROC post from 1961.
Starting off with the two pits to the left of the command post.
You can still see the footprint in the concrete wall were a corrugated crew room would have been, similar to a Nissen hut.
Steps leading to the raised operating platform and ammunition lockers.
The pits are quite boggy.
Each one had an observation post.
Heading to the command post, The original doors are backfilled.
The command post reminds of the one at HAA Lound near me. The one at Lound had lovely glass bricks to let in light.
What I think were the male and female latrine blocks.
And heading to the other two gun pits.
The engine room, were the other two had been back filled these were still open. This one still has the original doors in situ.
Both were flooded.
