Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
Alderney a small island off the coast of the Cherbourg Peninsular one of the Channel Islands and a Crown dependency. 3miles x 1.5miles.
In June 1940 its entire population was removed and sent to either the other Channel islands or to Britain (most ended up in Glasgow). Then the German occupation forces arrived on the 2nd July. Hitler thinking that the British would attempt at recapturing, ordered it to become a Festung and later combined into the Atlantikwall.
Map.
Loading a cannon.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
The Victorian Magazine for Battery No.2’s guns. For powder, shell and shot.
Powder.
Cannon balls.
Muzzle loading cannon.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
The Victorian Magazine is a very small corner of the outer Battery No.2.
Ausboustand-karte Alderney
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
Information on the wall.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
The entrance into the Victorian Magazine with a German concrete shield over the entrance.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
Victorian passageways.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
Victorian passageways.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
One of the Victorian storage rooms.
Lab scales.
Lab table.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
Shell filling Laboratory in another fort on the Isle Of Wight.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
Two sets of original doors.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
An opening from one room to the other for what reason I have no idea. Its high up in the wall.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
Looking back at the entrance with a light niche on the far wall.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
Shell store on the Isle Of Wight.
Shell.
Powder.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
More passages.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
Magazine. The floors would have been a suspended wooden floor, in the powder room, the men working there would arrive at the door, remove their cloths and change into woollen cloths with no metal and buttons but ties. Shoes removed and soft shoes worn.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
The opening from the other magazine a few pictures earlier.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
Rooms off either side and the German tunnel system leading down under the wall.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
The German tunnel system.
There were several rock drilling units sent to Alderney.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
German hob nailed boot print.
German hob nailed boots
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
The way out.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
Steps up.
Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg, Victorian Magazine
The opening into a trench system.
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