Farthingloe AA Battery, Dover

acen2006 · Oct 18, 2009

Just West of Citadel Battery along Dover's Western Heights is the remains of Anti Aircraft Battery. Four gun positions.

Tank traps or road block material ?

The site is pretty much badly damaged

jonney · Oct 18, 2009

Doesn't look too bad Acen I've seen worse mate

cptpies · Oct 18, 2009

Nice pics. I love those ammo status boards, still readable after 60 years. The cones you pictured would have been for a moveable roadblock. The convex base allowed them to be rolled into place, sometimes they have a long steel pole embedded in the top to facilitate this. Tanks would merely have farted in their general direction.

godzilla73 · Oct 18, 2009

The good news is this site will not be removed any time soon as its now all part of a nature trail and all on public access land. Farthingloe Battery was mainly run by the Royal Artillery, but was also partly manned by a group of Royal Marine Commandos whose job it was to blow everything on the Western Heights up if the Germans ever invaded.

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