Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Humber H12 |
Hob Uid: 928836 | |
Location : East Riding of Yorkshire Easington
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Grid Ref : TA4196714803 |
Summary : Site of Second World War heavy anti aircraft battery P/H12, Kilnsea. It was armed with four 3.7-inch guns and GL Mark II radar in 1942, was manned by 409 Battery of the 78th Royal Artillery Regiment in 1940, and by 173 Battery of the 62nd Royal Artillery Regiment in 1941. There are scant remains of the battery and adjacent camp.An aerial photograph taken in 1997 shows the western-most emplacement and six ancillary buildings. This area is subject to considerable coastal erosion. The access road to Spurn Head now runs over the base of the emplacement which only retains its holding down bolts and the ancillary buildings appear to have gone. |
More information : (TA 4200 1489) Heavy anti aircraft battery, Easington
This World War II heavy anti-aircraft battery consisted of four concrete gun emplacements and a camp of corregated huts. The site was situated at the landward end of Spurn Point, and when it was visited by the Fortress Studies Group in 1992 during the Holderness Survey only the hut bases remained. The FSG found the site to be in poor condition and at risk of total destruction.(1)
The monument is also visible as upstanding structures and earthworks on air photographs examined as part of the Rapid Coastal Assessment Survey of the Yorkshire and Humber Estuary. (2-3)
World War 2 heavy AA battery consisted of four concrete gun emplacements and a camp of corregated huts, surrounded by barbed wire. The site was situated at the landward end of Spurn Point. Only the hut bases remained in 1992; the site was in poor condition and at risk of total destruction. (4)
An aerial photograph taken in 1997 shows the western-most emplacement and six ancillary buildings. This area is subject to considerable coastal erosion. The access road to Spurn Head now runs over the base of the emplacement which only retains its holding down bolts and the ancillary buildings appear to have gone. (5)
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