Entrance shaft at ground level with pair of hinged hatches, a trapdoor and two steel plate air ventilators
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Escape shaft at ground level
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Entrance into underground Plotting Rooms
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Escape shaft at ground level with hinged hatch and two steel plate air ventilators
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Steel entrance door into Battery Plotting Room (taken from within Battery Plotting Room)
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Escape passage from Battery Plotting Room
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Steel entrance door into Fortress Plotting Room (taken from within Fortress Plotting Room)
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Galvanised sheet metal ducting for return air in Fan Room
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Sump and floor drains at entrance to ventilation duct
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Base of steep ladder stair within entrance shaft
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Entrance door into Battery Plotting Room from entrance shaft
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




View up escape shaft
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




View from escape passage into Battery Plotting Room
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Splayed cable duct from escape passage to Battery Plotting room
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Mesh grille to ventilation opening above access panel into escape hatch
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Galvanised sheet metal ducting for return air in Battery Plotting Room
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Escape passage with pair of counterweight tubes at base of escape shaft
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Detail of sump
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Drainage holes in concrete ceiling of ventilation duct
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Ventilation duct
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




View towards louvred ventilator - from ventilation duct
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Ventilation duct with dished floor
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Ventilation duct with dished floor
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Louvred low level air vent
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Fortress Plotting room with graffiti
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Galvanised sheet metal ducting for return air in Fortress Plotting Room
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Detail of hinge
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Detail of ladder rungs mounted in wall
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Detail of ladder rungs mounted in the wall at the entrance to escape passage
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Electric switchgear on wall in Fan Room
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Galvanised sheet metal ducting for return air in Battery Plotting Room
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Galvanised sheet metal ducting for return air in Battery Plotting Room
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Battery Plotting Room showing door into Fan Room
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Detail of door catch on entrance door into Battery Plotting Room
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




View up access shaft to air intake and extract ducts
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Base of ladder stair
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Triangular bracket for counterweight cable in escape stair
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




View down escape shaft from exit hatch
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Fixed pulley (one of two) mounted on side of escape shaft for counterweight cable
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




View from Battery Plotting Room towards the escape shaft and door into Fortress Plotting Room
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Steel frame mounted on north wall in Fortress Plotting Room
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Pulley on bracket at head of escape shaft
Photographer: William Martinson - 2019




Members of the Artillery Specialist Women’s Auxiliary Army Service (ASWAAS)
Source: Island at War pg 162
Submitted by William Martinson

Photographer: Unidentified




Measured drawing. Mens & delt W. Martinson
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