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the_historian
August 9, 2009, 12:03pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator
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Good to see photos of this, albeit long-distance ones. See the owner's still as amenable to visitors as he was a few years ago...........
I managed to get inside once, back in 1991. Didn't get any pictures though. Back then, the pit which was covered by corrugated iron looked as if it had been that way since the battery was on a c & m  basis back in the '50s. The rooms in several of the gunpits had had new breezeblock walls built for whatever reason, and there was general garage machinery lying about.
The radar building served as a chicken run, and there was another building I never managed to get near.
Keep meaning to back with a camera, commando-style.  
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The Fox
August 9, 2009, 3:53pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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I didn't ask to go in.  There was nobody about but I had the feeling I was being watched.  The two houses have quite a good view over the site despite the trees.  The hens are still in great profusion.
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jmb
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We went a few years ago, there was someone working in one of the buildings but his boss was away and he would not let us in without permission from her.  We waited some time but had to get on our way.  The owner lives in the caretaker's house by the gate.

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dolkin
August 10, 2009, 8:24pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator
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i keep meaning to wander in my excuse is my friend owns viewfield which are the same of i believe only 3 sites of that particular gun emplacement so try and bluff it and show him the pictures of viewfield worth a try
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The Fox
August 10, 2009, 10:01pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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Don't forget to take your camera!

Are any of the structures at Viewfield still in near original condition?  We could do with detailed pictures of the inside of the gunpits even if they are flooded and of the inside of the atttached buildings.  I don't mind coming to take pics.

There are still 4 of the sites, Stockiemeuir, Viewfield, Patterton and Rosneath.  Rosneath, unusually was sunk into the ground and has been filled in. The 5th one at Wemyss Bay has been destroyed and replaced with ticky tacky housing.  Must have been some job to demolish the emplacements.  There is supposed to be a 6th battery but so far we have not located  it.
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Apollo
August 11, 2009, 12:23am Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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Er...

Viewfield page has been fully stocked with Dolkin's pics from 2007!

The newer Google aerial views are also very illustrative, especially of the adjacent World War II battery. Hut bases very clear.
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The Fox
August 11, 2009, 10:50am Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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Aplogies, particularly to dolkin.  Somehow I must have missed the insertion of the pictures.
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