Verne High Angle Battery - Portland, Dorset
The Verne High Angle Battery is a former 19th-century gun battery on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. Situated close to the Verne Citadel, the battery is Grade II Listed and forms part of the citadel's scheduled monument status.
The battery has become a tourist attraction, while the battery's tunnels are often referred to by their local name 'Ghost Tunnels'
The battery was built in 1892 to protect Portland Harbour. Having be
From its runways, between 1941 and 1944, both RAF and USAAF airmen flew out into hostile skies to defend Britain with great courage and at huge personal cost.
The Watch Office itself is a rare surviving example of its type, with a Meteorological Section, large Crittall windows and a concrete viewing balcony. Its survival is remarkable, but it is in a state of extreme dereliction.
RAF Ibsley was one of twelve Second World War airfields in the New Forest
The airfi
World War II Pillbox and Fortification, based at the north end of Middle Beach, Studland in Dorset
Constructed in 1943 by Canadian engineers and named after their base back in Ontario.
It was one of many pillboxes constructed as a line of defence against the impending invasion of the German army.
This concrete bunker has walls a metre thick and would have offered a superb view of any naval vessels approaching, although not adequately equipped to repel the enemy.
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A recent discovery, courtesy of a book written by Colin Pomeroy - 'Dorset, The Royal Airforce', was that during the Second World War, there were decoy airfields built to divert the enemy bombers away from the actual RAF airfields.
More interestingly, is that these decoy sites are mostly unknown and some still exist to this day in plain sight.
To the uninitiated eye, they appear to be derelict structures of brick and concrete and do not display any clear signs of what they are there for. O
