Saving a Second World War Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery

This Heavy Anti-Aircraft (HAA) Battery – located some 350m east of Decoy Farm, to the north of the River Bure, near Mautby, Norfolk – is believed to be the most-complete battery of its type in Britain, and one of only a small number of complete, or near-complete, Second World War gun batteries still around today. Based on its design, it was probably built sometime after September 1943, as one of five batteries constructed to defend Great Yarmouth from the aerial bombing campaigns of the Luftwaffe. Typically, these sites contained a command post, radar platform, gun store, and a magazine for storing reserve ammunition, as well as domestic buildings. There would also have been gun p