100 yards west north west of Moverons Farm house
DEMOLISHED (In the 1970’s). No trace. A beet store now occupies the site.
Opened in 1959 and closed in 1968.
100 yards west north west of Moverons Farm house
DEMOLISHED (In the 1970’s). No trace. A beet store now occupies the site.
Opened in 1959 and closed in 1968.
In the 1990s, because I had written some books about the area, the Moverons farmer asked me to look at a shallow underground concrete room (c.16 X 12 feet) he had uncovered. From memory it was more than 100 yards from the farm, as we drove over fields to get there.
Was it— 1)The ROC post? 2) A hide for the secret Auxiliary (“British Resistance”) men who were to go there in the event of German invasion? 3) Built by the Australian Engineers who trained there 1916-1918? Or by the Commandos who trained there 1940-41?
Brightlingsea WWII ROC post (C1) was on top of Bateman’s Tower, 2 miles away on the sea front-so possibility (1) is not, I think, correct. Option (3) (Australians) also seemst highly improbable as their dugouts, tunnels etc were temporary, wood-supported, affairs. Commandos also unlikely as they were mobile troops and their stays were short.
So is it the Auxiliary hide? They did have one at Brightlingsea.
On second thoughts:
In the Cold War a new ROC post was opened at Brightlingsea as descibed in this site record, and was near Moverons Farm. Although these posts were underground, the one I saw was much further away than 100 yds, When I visited there circa 1995 there was no barn on the site.
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