Longues-sur-Mer Battery
The artillery battery at Longues-sur-Mer was built as part of the Atlantic Wall coastal fortifications and was built by German Forces in the first half …
Sarre Army Brigade Headquarters
The bunker was built in late 1940 as the South East Army Command Brigade Headquarters. It can be presumed that this was unlike most military …
Cooling Radio Station
As the world entered the 20th Century, technology was advancing at a rapid rate and communication between the UK and America was already wired with …
Reigate Army Battle Headquarters
Prime Minister Winston Churchill was after a location for a new, secret, Army Battle Headquarters and came across the perfect location in Reigate; an old …
Rainham ROC Post
This Cold War-era Royal Observer Corps post is situated in a disused compound on the edge of Rainham Quarry beside a former quarry pool, south …
Cliffe Six Bells Pub & Anti-Tank Defences
In the heart of the village of Cliffe is the Six Bells public house. It was renamed from the Black Bull which might have been …
Cliffe ROC Post
Over 1,500 Royal Observer Corps posts were built across the UK in the late 1950s and early 1960s to allow volunteers of the ROC to …
Hollingbourne Zero Station
If German forces were successful in invading Britain during the Second World War, the dozens of Zero stations would have come into operation. They were …
Merstham AAOR Bunker
The Anti-Aircraft Command Operations Room in Merstham was built in 1951 as part of Pendell Army Camp, which was demolished to make way for the …
Wickford WW1 Plane Crash Memorials
Tucked away in an isolated field bordered by the A130 and a railway in Shotgate, near Wickford, Essex, lies two memorials constructed in 1920 to …