963614 |
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A map of field defences in 1916 (The National Archives WO 78/4396) shows that Fife Ness was fortified. A barbed wire entanglement surrounds the Coastguard Station (NO60NW 367 - the building has been added in drawing ink to the map) and what is now the site of a radio station (NO60NW 324). Within the enclosure are three red circles, which might indicate strong-points, or perhaps radio antennae: the situation would be ideal for a military radio transmitter. To the NW the enclosure is covered by a further line of barbed wire, to the SE of which is marked a firing trench. [...] |
23 August 2013 |
963510 |
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The accommodation camp for the First World War coast battery is depicted on a War Department map dated 30 July 1915 (The National Archives WO 78/4417) to the W of the gun emplacements. It comprised a barrack block for 30 plus men, kitchen building, a canteen building with bread, meats stores and an Artificer workshop attached, an officer's quarters building, a telephone room, ammunition building or magazine to N. An earth closet building lay to the S and an engine house lay to the W. [...] |
23 August 2013 |
963031 |
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The First World War map of the Invergordon Naval Base (in a private collection) shows the presence of a housing estate of 126 cottages arranged along six streets. The clear implication of the map is that the houses were built for dockyard personnel (six houses for the dockyard’s officers are marked separately to the SW). The housing complex comprises uniform single-storey semi-detached cottages, with small porches, each with their own garden. The houses survive largely as built, although some have accumulated extensions, conservatories etc. The roads are now known as Golfview Terrace, Grosvenor Street, Cadboll Road, Elliot Road, Murray Road and Inglis Road. [...] |
2 August 2013 |