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.
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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 from 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 woolen cloths with no metal buttons but just ties. Shoes removed and soft shoes worn. So there was no possibility of anything causing a spark. The other important item were matches, cigarettes and pipes removed. To stop them having a quick smoke.
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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