Portadown ROC Post, Northern Ireland (Restoration)

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Hi everyone

I have never posted on here before but have looked at the site pretty often. I am a member of the ROCA and help with the ROC museum here in Northern Ireland.

I would post regularly on 28DL but decided to stick this site on here incase there was any other members from Northern Ireland that might be interested in viewing the site.

Anyhow.

Portadown 45 Post was part of 31 Group Royal Observer Corps, and was located in Co Armagh. It was a master post, ROCMET post and was also built back-to-front.

I first visited the post about 10 years ago, at that time it had part of the external fence remaining and was in decent condition inside and out. In 2009 I decided to visit EVERY remaining post in Northern Ireland and photograph them.

My return visit to Portadown was in February last year and I took the following pictures.

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That was that I thought, one post down, 48 more to go.

Then, a few months ago myself and a few others at the ROC museum decided we wanted to restore a post and open it as a museum. Since I live so close to Portadown and know the farmer quite well I decided to approach him and ask permission, thankfully he said yes.

I then set about contacting all the original crew members of Portadown post to see if they would care to lend a hand and 2 weeks ago 3 of the former members turned up to help me make a start.

6 hours later we had done a pretty decent amount of work. We re-installed a fence around the post and made a start on painting the above ground features.

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On Saturday past I called up again to the post and did another full days work, only 2 of us turned up this time put we still managed to finish above ground and make a decent start to below ground (I forgot to take photos of below ground but will get some later in the week)

Shot of the finished above ground features.
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Any of you wondering what the black thing in the middle of the shot is, its a free-standing mast support for the radio antenna, all master posts in Northern Ireland had them.

I hope to update this thread as often as work is carried out at the post so keep an eye on the thread for updates.

Cheers.
 
Nice Pictures. I still have to reply to your email and will give you a date when I will next be up at my post, the weathjer has been the problem till now.

Look forward to making the contact in the next few weeks.

Maurice
 

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