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26-06-2012, 21:19
Tigger started me off on this one.
Don't ask me why they called it Heswall Decoy, it should rightly be Thurstaston Decoy.
The HAA site was originally 4 guns, obviously extended to 6 at a later date.
I was told the generator was in the field on the other side of the railway, but "they" may have been referring to the Decoy generator, which certainly was. I don't know then what the path led to across the railway.
The decoy bunker is still there ( http://www.minwex.org/phpBB3/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=91 ), the cables used to run over the bridge to the decoy, which was groups of fire baskets.
The Army camp is now a caravan site (hands up those who have been there). I know a few couples who actually "met" there.
This whole area was also served by a convenient railway station.
The whole area was used post-war for storing Uranium Ore (for Capenhurst), there were mountains of it. It is now a picnic site, with built in sandwich toasters everywhere.
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Don't ask me why they called it Heswall Decoy, it should rightly be Thurstaston Decoy.
The HAA site was originally 4 guns, obviously extended to 6 at a later date.
I was told the generator was in the field on the other side of the railway, but "they" may have been referring to the Decoy generator, which certainly was. I don't know then what the path led to across the railway.
The decoy bunker is still there ( http://www.minwex.org/phpBB3/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=91 ), the cables used to run over the bridge to the decoy, which was groups of fire baskets.
The Army camp is now a caravan site (hands up those who have been there). I know a few couples who actually "met" there.
This whole area was also served by a convenient railway station.
The whole area was used post-war for storing Uranium Ore (for Capenhurst), there were mountains of it. It is now a picnic site, with built in sandwich toasters everywhere.
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