Renney Costal Battery Plymouth

Renney Coastal Battery Plymouth

Well this was one of many site visted over the weekend - and what a great site, a few windows broken but not graffiti Plus for me it was the first time i seen the 'big' shell lifts intact

Visted the battery with Scotty, Scrub and Sarah



On with the pics

Shell Lift














Big Pillabox !!!


View from battery

Well found dude nice pics, and nice bit o' history.









Weird thing to have here, maybe it makes sense


Gears...


Where is the owner now...




Spot the crane

dude, that big lift is the cartridge lift, they were kept in the deepest part of the magazine, and passed through the issue hatch (big hole in pic 4) the other holes contained lights, with grilles over for safety,

the shells were in the passages as u enter on racks. and placed in the smaller lift in the same "room"

bit of info for ya!

Nice day, Nice site, Nice people and nice shots.

















No idea what this means. Any one?

great pics guys!

Fantastic pics guys. Renney is the best site IMO for condition. Did you manage to see the site of the Southern Blockhouse & Command Post?

can u pm me a flashearth location pls badoosh? not sure where u mean myself!

kernowexpeditionary said:

can u pm me a flashearth location pls badoosh? not sure where u mean myself!

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And me please

I have to say that place does look to be in very good condition, most are damp and well mouldy or rotten, but that seems quite clean, good find guys

Scotty said:

Nice day, Nice site, Nice people and nice shots.

No idea what this means. Any one?

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Storage area for 3.7 inch amunition.

Great report guys judging by the expelair aircon control the trainees in 1991 weren't as hardy as there predocessors

Wow, this is great. So many nice details and remains. The cartridge lift is amazing!
Excellent pics, guys.

Badoosh can you PM the location as well please dude !!

Renney

Nice pics chaps !

Had a rather wet trip today with Badoosh and son,but had a good explore anyway, a bit late as it is a year since I did Lentney Battery.

A few pics from me....

Shifting Lobby



Shifting Lobby 2



Some info on Shifting Lobbies, just click on the pics :

http://www.palmerstonforts.org.uk/tour1/thir.htm

Shell Marks on Magazine floor



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great site is'nt it graybags

did you see the giant pillbox ??

blooming marvellous that! great job gents, not a crisp packet or tinnie in sight. Fandabadoozey

we sweapt up before taking pics lol

Nar it was a really clean site and cos it out the way the no graffiti

penance said:

Storage area for 3.7 inch amunition.

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must be HAA ammo tho?

kernowexpeditionary said:

must be HAA ammo tho?

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Presumably, but as there is no mention of those guns being at the fort maybe it was ammo storage for local defences outside of the fort. Foprt Nelson in Portsmouth was used that way during ww2.

penance said:

Presumably, but as there is no mention of those guns being at the fort maybe it was ammo storage for local defences outside of the fort. Foprt Nelson in Portsmouth was used that way during ww2.

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I've noticed that some of the images are from the nearby Lentney Battery. The coast artillery school from Fort Staddon carried out trials here of a 3.7" HAA gun after the war so that is the more likely answer.