Whats this ?

[Red1]

Happy, and i say HAPPY as you must be DAZE.

What is this at your ground ?

I have been told a lot of things over the years about it,but your the man who knows the real story,i think.

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd100/rab18791879/100_0607.jpg

[condemned red]

wasnt there a machine gun bunker up on that hill !!! :whistle

[The Pewit]

Heavily fortified snack bar brought in from when they dug up the Atlantic wall.

[Red1]

wasnt there a machine gun bunker up on that hill !!! :whistle


Somthing along that lines i think,although i am not sure as i have heard so many stories over the years to what it is.
I know all along Belfast lough there was concrete bunkers like this as i have seen them,but they must have had large type guns for shooting down jerry planes in the second world war as there is rails still embeded in the concrete floor for moving the large gun from side to side..Protection for the Shipyard and Shorts plane makers maybe ?

[red marauder]

id say a few luftwaffe pilots cursed that in their day i heard it was for anti aircraft guns during the war

[Flag Man]

Cant see th pic in work but if i think you are referring to the liitle stone clad thing on the top of the grass embankment well thats an old world war 2 pillar box.

[BG]

Happy, and i say HAPPY as you must be DAZE.

What is this at your ground ?

I have been told a lot of things over the years about it,but your the man who knows the real story,i think.

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd100/rab18791879/100_0607.jpg

Well it still does have its useful purpose from time to time. In more recent times it has been used by Glentoran to cage the most hideous of beasts, the snarling, crazy, half-hysterical, twisted, foaming-at-the mouth ranting lunatic and uncle Fester lookalike on the odd boxing day for ninety minutes or so.:coat

Nah seriously, there is a wee story behind this and i have heard it before. I'll check my facts and get back to this thread, probably on Saturday evening.

[Red1]

Well it still does have its useful purpose from time to time. In more recent times it has been used by Glentoran to cage the most hideous of beasts, the snarling, crazy, half-hysterical, twisted, foaming-at-the mouth ranting lunatic and uncle Fester lookalike on the odd boxing day for ninety minutes or so.:coat

Nah seriously, there is a wee story behind this and i have heard it before. I'll check my facts and get back to this thread, probably on Saturday evening.

Good man.

[Red_Army1]

Happy, and i say HAPPY as you must be DAZE.

What is this at your ground ?

I have been told a lot of things over the years about it,but your the man who knows the real story,i think.

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd100/rab18791879/100_0607.jpg

Thats Chris Walkers house, I heard he comes out every haloween night and scares the living shite out of the young kids around East Belfast....

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41148000/jpg/_41148588_chris_walker_hair203.jpg

:partyanimal:eeek3

[thelawnmowerman]

You love it now you know how to post pictures eh redarmy1

[Red_Army1]

You love it now you know how to post pictures eh redarmy1

Oh aye its great :D

[BG]

Good man.

Yes, Red1, one thing that i have found out for you is that this was definitely a 'look-out tower' during the second world war, obviously designed to thwart the air attacks from Nazi Germany under the dictatorship of the then German leader, Chancellor Adolf Hitler. That is fact.

I have heard a reasonably good story behind this one, as i said in my original post in your quest to establish answers, but i need a good source at the Oval to establish if this story is actual 'fact' or just myth. Hopefully i shall be back to you and this thread no later than Tuesday.

[Red1]

I used to camp along Belfast lough with my brother and da when i was younger.A place called Seahill.
These lookout towers are all along the coast from Holywood right down as far as Bangor and most likley beyond.I think there was big guns in them at one time as the old rusted tracks where they swung from side to side are still imbeded in the concrete.