Admiralty Pier turret

• Guest 703

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  7 March 2013     17:08219268
  #1      
  I thought this pic might interest the history fans on here.
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  I found it looking through some old family photos and guess it must have been taken about 51-52ish by my age (I cropped myself out from the right hand side, the folks in the pic seem be on an outing wearing Sunday best but I appear to be wearing my sister's Sunday best and there's no way that image is going to see the light of day )
• Guest 868

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  7 March 2013     17:16219269
  #2      
  Looks like it could be the observation post for the Pier Turret Battery
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• Guest 868

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  7 March 2013     17:18219270
  #3      
  Different angle...
  
  

  
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  7 March 2013     17:24219272
  #4      
  those kids look really happy dressed up like that and marched along, probably to sunday school afterwards!!
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  7 March 2013     17:27219273
  #5      
  Any idea when it disappeared, Paul?
  
  Howard, they're beaming compared to the look on my face!
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  7 March 2013     17:43219278
  #6      
  Not sure at the moment I'll have to have a delve, but chances are it would have been at the disbanding of coastal artillery in 1956
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• Guest 710

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  7 March 2013     20:51219309
  #7      
  Mr. Ignorant here...
  
  The tall tower-structure in #3 does not resemble the squat turret in #1.
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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  7 March 2013     21:31219315
  #8      
   Tom Austin wrote:

  Mr. Ignorant here...
  
  The tall tower-structure in #3 does not resemble the squat turret in #1.

  
  
  It's half hidden by the actual Turret in the first image.
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• Guest 767

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  8 March 2013     10:55219361
  #9      
  I've been rooting around in my files and have found several sets of images of inside the turret, will open a thread soon!
  Phil Wyborn - Brown at www.wybornphotography.co.uk
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  8 March 2013     11:25219364
  #10      
  Thank you PaulW
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.