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Construction
Date 1940 - 1946
Event ID 545863
Category Building History
Type Construction
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The Churchill Barrier was completed in the latter stages of World War II. Vertical air photographs taken during WW II (WL/10 2.22-2.23, flown 4 July 1942 show construction at an early stage, before visible signs of the barrier were showing. Five of the blockships listed above are also visible on the photographs as well as the construction camps on the S shore of the mainland and part of the Italian Prisoner-of-war camp on the N shore of Lamb Holm. The steel towers used in the construction of the barriers can also be seen.
The completed barriers, with abandoned construction camps, are visible on a postwar RAF vertical air photograph (106G/Scot/UK 137, 3014, flown 3 July 1946).
