Druridge Bay - the last installment (honest)

Part 1 [ame]http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=18508[/ame]
Part 2 [ame]http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=18510[/ame]

This is the last installment and some help is required as I don't know the purpose of these buildings and can only guess.

The first one is listed on the DoB as a pillbox but as you will see it isn't






If you look at this front view you can see where it has been bricked up so to speak


I managed to reach my camera through the vent holes and take these next photo's




My theory is that it could be a beach light emplacement as there are several mentioned in the history and the DoB has one marked although it is about 2 miles away. You cannot see the beach from it as it's in the dunes but 70 years ago it is possible that you could. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong

Next we have another mystery building









Again you can see where the building has been bricked up. My first thoughts were that this was a generator house but I'm not so sure now because it looks like there has been a large embrasure on the front next to the doorway so I'm thinking it may have housed a gun of some description

View of mystery building from the beach and again more tank blocks


lying next to the building was this, could have been part of a road block?





Anti-tank ditch that ran along the back of the defenses




And finally this at Low Chibburn Preceptory. During WW2 a pillbox was built inside the ruins of the preceptoy but although is was a listed monument it was demolished in 1994 when work was carried out to make the building safe for tourists. Today they have rebuilt one of the embrasures to show what it would look like





an original 1940's photo showing the embrasures


I will post the rest of the preceptory photo's in the rural forum if any one is interested

Well thats all folks
Sorry if I have bored you to death
Thanks if you made it this far unscathed

Cheers Jon

Cool stuff there jonney a good days work.

excellent reports mate

Cheers guys it was a good day. Any ideas on the mystery buildings?

Nice one jonney, it's nice to see the original b&w photo of how it use to look.

excellent stuff matey

A very good trio of reports. Liked them a lot jonney, thanks.

Munchh said:

A very good trio of reports. Liked them a lot jonney, thanks.

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Cheers mate I'm still none the wiser about the unknown buildings though

Great stuff Jonney. Those unknown concrete buildings bear similarities to range shelters (a large opening with the door to one side of it) Was this area used for bombing practice or anything similar?

Interesting in Pic 6 - the sqaure structure on the floor - similar to the item Munchh and I have been trying to identify at Worthy Down. Or is this one a stove base ?

cptpies said:

Great stuff Jonney. Those unknown concrete buildings bear similarities to range shelters (a large opening with the door to one side of it) Was this area used for bombing practice or anything similar?

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It was a bombing range mate the second one (the big one) is not on the DoB and the smaller one is marked as a pillbox although the bombing direction marker was about 1/2 a mile further south from these (although there were no signs of it)

hydealfred said:

Interesting in Pic 6 - the sqaure structure on the floor - similar to the item Munchh and I have been trying to identify at Worthy Down. Or is this one a stove base ?

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I have no idea what it was mate I managed to get the photo by standing on my tiptoes (and I'm 6 foot) and pointing the camera through the vent hole