This time our walking party managed to get right into the chambers underneath the abandoned shore batteries. Here we have Mavis looking dead guilty, caught red-handed stealing a 100- ton cannon. These areas contain the operating gear and shell storage. Despite the peeling paint, the mechanical parts were well greased and you could imagine it wouldn’t take too much work to get it all functioning again.
The guns are basically 15-inch battleship guns, supplied by Vickers in 1929. The picture above illustrates how much being in the gun emplacement was like being on board ship, with ladders, catwalks and hatches everywhere. It was pitch dark inside, so needed the combined light from all 4 of our torches to illuminate these metal caverns.
Here we’re in the generator room. John & Rudi are trying to work out what they were generating the power for, given they hadn’t got TV in 1929.
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