Kincraig Battery, Earlsferry, Fife, August 2010

[RedDave]

This is a coastal battery on the north side of the Firth of Forth, on the Fife Coastal Path. More details can be found in the Canmore Site Record for Kincraig Battery.

Today there are two transmitter masts at the site.

On the opposite shore of the Firth of Forth, there was the Fidra battery, which unlike the Kincraig battery was not equipped with radar.

Not sure what this building is for.

Inside it.

A rusty cash register?

Radar site (also shown in the next three photographs)

In a small building NE of the radar site.

Searchlight platform, halfway down the cliff. There are stairs down to it.

Halfway down the steps.

Roof of the searchlight platform.

Gun emplacement. There are two others. All of them have somehow been wrecked.

Detail on gun emplacement.

Another gun emplacement.

Different view of other gun emplacement.

Observation post, and remains of security fence.

Another view of the observation post.

 

[hydealfred]

Very interesting site - thanks for posting.

 

[graybags]

Enigma

not an Enigma machine then ?

 

[RedDave]

not an Enigma machine then ?

Would have been a nice find if it was.

 

[penance]

The first building looks like a generator building, the plinths look to be about right for the Lister genny, like this one here:

http://www.anti-aircraft.co.uk/ListerJP3generator.html

 

[zimbob]

Ah, looks like a good day for it

Went here a whiley back, it's a nice spot

Shame about the demo though

 

[RedDave]

Shame about the demo though

Any idea what happened? I couldn't make sense of it.

 

[Foxylady]

Beat me to it, penance. Some great remains there. Love the C.A.S.L.E...it's very similar to the one just down the road from me.
Cheers RedDave.

 

[fluffy5518]

Nice one Red Dave. !!! A good find and some good photo's as well.Sunshine in Scotland !! A sure sign of impending global doom !!!!!
Fluffy5518 (a fellow Norf London ladd in exile !!)