Request: T.E.G.W.R.A Ty Croes, plans/photos

[tigger]

Wasn't sure which section to put this in (RADAR & Bombing both seemed appropriate).

Does anyone have any plans, aerial photos or pictures of the Trials Establishment Guided Weapons Royal Artillery site at Ty Croes, Anglesey? Will be over there this weekend with time on my hands but no real idea where to look/what to look for interms of what is/was there.

[PETERTHEEATER]

The old by-laws might be of some help; at last they define the area:

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/Mi...Byelaws/Wales/

Scroll to Carmarthenshire for the Ty Croes PDF

EDIT: no longer available - June 2011

[tigger]

Odd...Ty Croes has never been Carmarthenshire! Thanks Peter

[tigger]

From: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/cbawales/N...sletter32.html

"Missiles and Motor Racing

Recording by Gwynedd Archaeological Trust (GAT) at the Anglesey Circuit (Trac Môn), Ty Croes, southwest Anglesey (NGR SH 333691) for Meyrick Estate Management Ltd provides a vivid demonstration of the changing nature of work archaeologists are now expected to routinely carry out.

The site was formerly a Ministry of Defence (MoD) Military Camp, established in 1942 and closed during the 1970s, which was used for the test firing of anti-aircraft (AA) weapons and surface-to-air missiles (SAM). In 1997 the Anglesey Circuit was opened as a championship motor racing circuit, utilising much of the land formerly used as the military camp. An archaeological assessment of the site was undertaken in March 2002 by The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust and formed the basis of the recording programme.

The site covers c46ha and GAT was required to undertake a photographic and written record of the redundant military buildings and gun emplacements likely to be affected by the proposed development. The recording phase identified five gun emplacements associated with the firing of Thunderbird and Bloodhound SAMs, including the fittings used to anchor the base units of the missiles, whilst an abandoned road and narrow gauge railway for carrying munitions and heavy items was also identified and recorded. The military activity in this area was not dated to any specific period, but the identification of SAM emplacements suggested activity from 1959 onwards, when the infrastructure for the test firing of missiles was put in place. An anti-aircraft gun emplacement was also identified in the same area and was thought to indicate the operation of the 3.7” Vickers AA gun used between 1942 and 1959 prior to the installation of the missiles.

John Roberts "

[PNK]

This is from the Old-Maps website, which strangely has stopped allowing enlargement of maps! The date is 1952/3


Ty-Croes 1952.JPG

[ianbache]

Hi all
Went to Ty Croes to see what was left, most of the site has been turned into a motor racing circuit, but what is ive had a go off taking, so here goes

Entrance


Fuel store

[soccerboy9876]

Wasn't sure which section to put this in (RADAR & Bombing both seemed appropriate).

Does anyone have any plans, aerial photos or pictures of the Trials Establishment Guided Weapons Royal Artillery site at Ty Croes, Anglesey? Will be over there this weekend with time on my hands but no real idea where to look/what to look for interms of what is/was there.

Hi just to let you know I have several photographs from this establishment

[PETERTHEEATER]

Welcome to AiX soccerboy9876,, if there are no copyright issues we should like to see your photographs posted in this thread.

Instruction on how to post images are in a 'sticky' on the forum Home page.

[Mark Edwards]

Hello

I'm very interested in seeing the photos of Ty Croes, especially any when the place was in service / recently abandoned - will you be posting them ?

Thanks

Mark