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Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Mersey H30
Hob Uid: 1414605
Location : Wirral Non Civil Parish
Grid Ref : SJ2779792423
Summary : Site of Second World War heavy anti aircraft battery Z/H30 at Leasowe, Hoylake. The battery and associated barbed wire obstructions, trackways, anti aircraft obstacles and military camp are visible as upstanding structures on air photographs mapped as part of the North West Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey. It was armed with four 4.5-inch guns with GL Mark II radar in 1942, when it was manned by the Home Guard. No surface features are visible on the latest 2005 NMRC Survey oblique photography.
More information : ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY. SRF HAA H30 Z Battery Recorder- D. Taylor & A. Rudd. (1) Heavy anti-aircraft battery with associated barbed wire obstructions, trackways, anti aircraft obstacles and military camp are visible as upstanding structures on air photographs, centred at SJ 2775 9241. The site appears to be functional from early 1940s up to the cold war. No surface features are visible on the latest 2005 NMRC Survey oblique photography. (2-4) Image on 'Britain from above' website dated 11th July 1946 shows two additional gun pits to the four 1938 ones. PRO document "Appendix 'QA' to AA Command Mob Scheme Part V - Oct 51, Sheet 26"; states that Leasowe had 4 x 5.25 guns on site at that date. (5) Customer comment received October 2017: 'I've now obtained a copy of RAF 58/1719 0320 15-APR-1955 and can confirm the post war installation of 4 x 5.25 guns, possibly those removed from Red Noses/New Brighton nearby. It's constructed in the style of cold war batteries with the gun pits set in a shallow arc. The quality of the image is not good but appears to show a cold war control room just inside the site entrance. The WWII battery appears to have been demolished during the construction.'

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Source details : The two databases developed by the Project can be searched on-line through the Archaeology Data Service at http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/dob/index.cfm
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Source details : RAF 13H/UK789 196 11-JUN-1941
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Source details : RAF 106G/UK/626 3026 10-AUG-1945
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Source details : RAF 58/1719 0320 15-APR-1955
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Source details : Email correspondence 19-SEP-2015 - Britain from Above photograph, Aerofilms Ltd collection EAW001712
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Second World War
Display Date : World War II
Monument End Date : 1945
Monument Start Date : 1939
Monument Type : Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery, Barbed Wire Obstruction, Military Camp, Radar Station, Aircraft Obstruction, Trackway
Evidence : Documentary Evidence, Structure, Levelled Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : DoB Non Anti Invasion Database UID
External Cross Reference Number : 4038
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Merseyside)
External Cross Reference Number : 2792-005
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SJ 29 SE 40
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Relationship type : General association

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Associated Activities :
Activity type : MEASURED SURVEY
Start Date : 1995-04-01
End Date : 2002-03-01

Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2007-11-26
End Date : 2009-05-22

Historic England Research Records

Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Mersey H30