Verne High Angle Battery, Portland.

The battery was constructed to house six 9 inch guns on high angle mounts (70 degrees) that would fire heavy projectiles upto ten thousand yards down onto the deck of ships attacking the harbour of Portland. The guns were directed by Position Finding Cells, two at Priory Corner on West Cliff and four on East Cliff. The ammunition was stored in two magazines, one at each end of the battery, feeding the guns by rail and delivering the shells at muzzle height. Between the magazines were bombproof troop shelters and a lab. Two store buildings were built to the rear too.

Although chavved up in places this was a good little explore and Portland has a few...

Nice find H, looks great, you were lucky with the weather as well

Thats some serious concrete,great pics thanks for sharing.

Great report, I love places like that.

Great to see Verne again. You should have said you were going, I'd have come with. Thanks for posting.

Great pics thanks for posting,

I Love this place, went there a few years ago, ventured into the tunnels without a torch, and nearly shat myself

nice pics

nice pics and report, thanks

I'm just starting to take my mag light out with me after too many accidents. I love the tunnels though and curiosity would get the better of my. Thanks for the report. Serious weopanry.

I visited HPM Verne for work purposes a few years ago and was intrigued by the location and military installations nearby.
Unfortunately never had the chance to explore them at the time but I am very glad to see some of the details, wonderful location and great photos Son of Bill, thanks.

Good stuff son of bill the historic picture is a good find.The good captain also visited here a while ago

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=20048&highlight=portland

looking good just down the road......

Ww2

All these cool places and all England had to endure was the WW2.....

It's a cracking place and amazingly undisturbed. Probably due to it's proximity to the max security prison.

Really nice photos there dude! Looks like its a really good splore down there, long way to go for me though!

So what period we looking at here bud? It's not obvious to me 'cos I'm not well up on British military architecture. Kind of reminds me very much of the Rinella battery on Malta which was mid Victorian if I remember rightly. They had one of the last great muzzle loaders which was redundant before it was installed.

TeeJF said:

So what period we looking at here bud? It's not obvious to me 'cos I'm not well up on British military architecture. Kind of reminds me very much of the Rinella battery on Malta which was mid Victorian if I remember rightly. They had one of the last great muzzle loaders which was redundant before it was installed.

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According to Wikipedia it was built 1892, taken out of service in 1898 and decommissioned in 1906.

nice one Son of Bill. we had a look round this one a couple of weeks ago. Interesting to see the drawing showing how it was originally. Maxmix- hope it wasn't your turd I trod in? halfway along the curved tunnel, took ages to get it all off my boot!

Turd Tunnel


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A couple of miles down the road was this place- anyone know what it is?


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