A Battery Without Electricity.2 Traditional Cache
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A Battery Without Electricity, Blyth Northumberland. First hidden 11/Jan/2009 by Kevnorth. Adopted by Dibbleys Jan 2012.
New cache placed after problems with the first adoption.
High muggle area so stealth will be required at all times
Similar script to the first Blyth Battery cache, but a new position.
LISTED AS A NEW CACHE, SO YOU CAN COME AND FIND THIS ONE AGAIN IN ITS' NEW POSITION.
The cache is NOT hidden in the nearby stone wall, so please do NOT search there
Placed with the kind permission of The Blyth Battery Volunteers and Northumberland County Council.
Blyth Battery, Northumberland is a coastal defence (not anti-aircraft) artillery battery, built in 1916 to defend the port of Blyth and the submarine base there during World War I and upgraded for re-use during World War II. It is the most intact, accessible and intelligible coast defence battery on the north east and Yorkshire coast, with individual buildings and features of considerable rarity. It comprises two building groups – a twin coast defence gun emplacement and a twin searchlight emplacement, each with associated buildings, mostly in concrete with some brick. Each building group was in a compound surrounded by a fence, and the entire Battery was served by temporary hutment camps for off-duty personnel on adjoining land. Some buildings are partially sunken or built into dunes to conceal or protect them, and some were partially concealed with false roof and structures.
It was handed over to the local authority in 1925 and, although recommissioned for World War II, has since been absorbed into the wider recreational use of the Links, a 2-mile stretch of formal and informal open space south of Blyth town centre, comprising a long concave beach, dunes, mown grass and car-parks.
All of the Battery’s main buildings survive & were renovated during 2009 as part of the £3.8 million restoration of this area which has seen new parks, new changing & toilet facilities a renovated bandstand & 20 brand new beach huts at the foot of the gun emplacements.
The Battery’s buildings are scheduled and listed Grade II
For more infomation please visit www.blythbattery.org.uk
or click on the related web page link at the top of the page
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