EAW030550 ENGLAND (1950). Purfleet Camp, Beacon Hill and environs, Beacon Hill, from the south-east, 1950

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Manylion

Pennawd	[EAW030550] Purfleet Camp, Beacon Hill and environs, Beacon Hill, from the south-east, 1950
Cyfeirnod	EAW030550
Dyddiad	28-June-1950
Dolen
Enw lle	BEACON HILL
Plwyf
Ardal
Gwlad	ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad	555510, 178483
Hydred / Lledred	0.23989613276622, 51.483405075799
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol	TQ555785

Pinnau

Purfleet Camp, yet a further 40 huts and support buildings were in this rectangle of land in 1915. Adrodd fel Amhriodol	Kentishman	Monday 3rd of October 2016 06:42:37 PM
Number 7 magazine, built 1910 for the storage of Cordite. See: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol8/pp57-74 Adrodd fel Amhriodol	Kentishman	Thursday 8th of September 2016 10:49:45 PM
Beacon Hill. Trinity House built a lighthouse here in 1828 to test new types of lamps and reflectors and the lighting values of different types of oil. It was taken out of use in the 1870s. See http://edithsstreets.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/riverside-north-of-thames-and-east-of.html This was also said to be the site of a World War 1 anti-aircraft battery which claimed to have been the first to shoot down a Zeppelin (L15), although this was also claimed by the crew of an anti-aircraft gun at the Brent in Dartford. Adrodd fel Amhriodol	Kentishman	Thursday 8th of September 2016 10:20:20 PM
Purfleet Camp, per the OS map revised 1915, pub 1921, there were another 40 huts plus support buildings on this side of the railway. Adrodd fel Amhriodol	Kentishman	Thursday 8th of September 2016 09:58:22 PM
Per the OS map revised 1915, pub 1921, there were a further 3 rows of huts going east as far as the railway. Adrodd fel Amhriodol	Kentishman	Thursday 8th of September 2016 09:54:35 PM
'Military Hospital' as shown on 6 inch to the mile OS map revised 1915, published 1921. Adrodd fel Amhriodol	Kentishman	Thursday 8th of September 2016 09:51:01 PM
Purfleet rifle range Adrodd fel Amhriodol	Kentishman	Sunday 4th of September 2016 05:01:32 PM
Purfleet Station Adrodd fel Amhriodol	Kentishman	Sunday 4th of September 2016 04:59:39 PM
Purfleet Rifle Range Station Adrodd fel Amhriodol	Kentishman	Sunday 4th of September 2016 04:56:01 PM

Cyfraniadau Grŵp

This image shows the remains of an extensive WW1 army training camp, a military hospital and the site of and anti-aircraft gun whose crew claimed to have shot down Zeppelin L15, the first to be destroyed over Britain.

Kentishman

Thursday 8th of September 2016 10:23:50 PM