I have emailed The Heugh Battery Trust to to see if they can verify the information about the Mk VIIs.
The two 6 inch Mk VII guns of Brownstone battery are actually quite famous. they were the only shore battery guns in the UK to ever engage the...
The pictures on the information boards at the site are incorrect, there was no concrete canopy over the gun positions. The 6 inch guns were in...
There are several bits of the gun mountings around the site, they would have looked like this before they were blown up. [IMG]
This is what the No 2 gun looked like when I saw it in 1951. [IMG]
These guns were originally at Hartlepool and were fired in anger in WW1. http://www.heughbattery.com/site/history_of_the_site The black & white...
My father took me there in what must have been 1951, I would have been eight at the time. My father was a telephone engineer in what was then the...
