1 The remains of a brick building of the Air Ministry type dating from WW2.
The remains of a temporary brick building of the Air Ministry type, situated between Hill and Kites Hardwick.
1 The primary role of the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was the recognition and identification of hostile aircraft. With the start of the ‘Cold War’, and the increased threat of ...
A Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Post at Wolston. Monitoring Posts were to be used in the modern period to report nuclear bursts and to monitor fall-out. The post is located at the intersection of the Fosse and Dyer's Lane.
1 2 The remains of a heavy anti aircraft battery. The control building survives in good condition and three of the battery structures are visible as earthworks on the ground, ...
The remains of an anti aircraft battery from the Second World War.The control building survives and earthworks of three battery structures. The site is 500m southwest of Finham Bridge.
1 The site of a Royal Observer Corps Post established during or before December 1937 as Post 1, cluster 3 in 5 Group. It was re-named Post 2, cluster R ...
The site of a Royal Observer Corps Post established during the Second World War to monitor and track enemy aircraft. The site is located on the Golf Course.
1 This Royal Observer Corps Post was established in, or before June 1937 as Post 2, cluster D, 5 Group. In, or before November 1944 it was relocated, under the ...
The site of a Royal Observer Corps Post established in 1937 to identify and monitor any enemy aircraft. It was located 200m south of Knavehill Wood.
1 This Royal Observer Corps Post was established in or before December 1952 as Post 3, cluster P, 8 Group. The Royal Observer Corps was largely manned by volunteers, and ...
The site of a Royal Observer Corps Post at Bedworth established in the Modern Period to monitor and track enemy aircraft. The site was located in the area of Milton Close.
1 The site of a Royal Observer Corps Post for Coleshill/Curdworth/Hurley established in or before December 1937 as Post 3, cluster G, 5 Group. In September 1950 it was re-named ...
The site of a Royal Observer Corps post established in the Modern Period to monitor and track enemy aircraft. It was located in the area of Trajan Hill.
1 The site of a Royal Observer Corps Post established in or before January 1938 to identify and monitor enemy aircraft. It was named Post 2 of Cluster J in ...
The site of a Royal Observer Corps Post established in the Modern Period to identify and track enemy aircraft. It was located 500m southwest of Spring Hill.
1 The site of a Searchlight installation. On November 1941 orders were issued by 350 Searchlight Battery to take over 16 sites of which this was one.
2 A typical searchlight ...
The site of a searchlight installation from the Second World War. It was located 700m northeast of Foul End.
1 Nuthurst is listed on page 321 under Birmingham. It was first mentioned in June 1942. The listing on page 322 states that it was unarmed, which means that it ...
The site of a Heavy Anti Aircraft installation dating from the Second World War. It was located to the southeast of Jonathan's Coppice
1 A heavy anti aircraft site first mentioned in 1940, being D title H30. It was not permanently equipped with large calibre guns nor with radar. Gun batteries would typically ...
The site of a heavy anti aircraft installation dating from the Second World War and identified from documentary evidence and an aerial photograph. It was situated 150 metres northwest of the Sports Fields at Ryton on Dunsmore.
1 The site of a heavy anti aircraft installation, H66, first mentioned in 1942, and not listed in June 1942 as equipped with permanent large calibre guns or with radar.
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The site of a heavy anti aircraft battery dating from the Second World War and identified from documentary evidence. It was located north west of Ticknell Spinney, Stoneleigh.
1 The site of a heavy anti aircraft installation A, title H21, first mentioned in February 1940 and part of Coventry Gun Defended Area. It was equipped with 4 x ...
The site of a heavy anti aircraft installation dating from the Second World War and identified from documentary and aerial photograph evidence. It was situated 400 metres east of Bulkington Bridge.
1 The site of a heavy anti aircraft installation dating from the Second World War. It was part of the Coventry Gun Defended Area, no B, title H71, and was ...
The site of a heavy anti aircraft installation dating from the Second World War and identified at this grid reference from documentary evidence.
1 The site of a heavy anti aircraft battery, H22, first mentioned in June 1942 and part of the Coventry Gun Defended Area. At that date is was not listed ...
The site of a heavy anti aircraft battery from the Second World War, identified at this grid reference by documentary evidence. It was located 600m southwest of Ash-pole Spinney.
1 The site of a heavy anti aircraft battery, part of the Coventry Gun Defended Area. It was first listed in June 1942 as H24. At this date it was ...
The site of a heavy anti aircraft battery from the Second World War identified at this grid reference by documentary evidence.
1 The site of a heavy anti aircraft battery which was part of the Coventry Gun Defended Area. It was listed as H29 and first mentioned in June 1942. At ...
The site of a heavy anti aircraft battery from the Second World War identified at this grid reference from documentary evidence. It was located 250m north of Tuckey's Bridge.
1 A light anti aircraft site dating from World War II, no 417. The vulnerable point needing protection in this instance was Hams Hall Power Station. A LAA installation ...
The site of a light anti aircraft artillery emplacement from the Second World War. There is documentary evidence that it was positioned to protect Hams Hall Power Station, and was located at this grid reference.
1 A 19th century drain and layers containing 19th and 20th century pottery were recorded during the excavation of three test pits. A sandstone layer appeared to be beneath the ...
A 19th century drain and layers containing 19th and 20th century pottery were recorded during the excavation of 3 test pits. A sandstone layer beneath the 19th century footings of the existing building may have represented the remains of an earlier building. The site was located at 4 Meeting Lane, Alcester.
1 The site of a light anti aircraft gun emplacement, no 281, listed in June 1940. The features were typically not substantial. Light anti aircraft guns were smaller, faster firing ...
The site of a light anti aircraft emplacement from the Second World War identified from documentary evidence. Its purpose was to protect the Lodge Plug Works at Rugby. It was located 200m west of the Clifton Road Cemetery.
1 The site of a light anti aircraft gun emplacement, no 669. No further details currently available.
The site of a anti aircraft gun emplacement from the Second World War identified from documentary evidence. Its location, somewhere in Nuneaton, is unknown.
1 Type Q (night) decoy. The purpose of these sites was to simulate the flarepath lighting of permanent RAF stations. Bombing decoys covered large areas of open land; and very ...
The site of Wibtoft bombing decoy, a system of lights, fires or dummy objects designed to confuse the enemy into dropping bombs in the wrong place, and so protecting RAF Bramcote. It is identified at this grid reference from documentary evidence.
1 A Starfish site (from Special Fire sites). Fire based decoys like this one were set up following the bombing of Coventry in November 1940 to protect urban sites. A ...
The site of a fire based bombing decoy site from the Second World War known as a Starfish site. Night time fires were created to confuse enemy aircraft and draw them away from their real target. Documentary evidence gives this grid reference 2 km to the east of Halford.
1 The foundations of a Second World War brick air-raid shelter were recorded following the stripping of the site prior to the construction of a single storied extension.
The foundations of a Second World War brick air-raid shelter. The site is located at 18 Bleachfield Street, Alcester.