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The structure was used during the war as an RN or Home Guard observation post. There is an associated 'bunker' close by [this is bricked up]. [Local boatman, Dickie Cord, said there was an LAA battery here which shot down an enemy aircraft that now lies off Thatcher Rock].
(Source: Field Visit 1995/11/06)


      

        Type of site
        COASTAL OBSERVATION POST
      

      

        Location
        At Hope's Nose, Marine Drive, Torquay.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Torquay, Torbay, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SX 9488 6358
             (Scale: 1:25000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete, 
            Iron
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Development (Medium Term) 
Detail: Torbay District Council might well consider the structure an 'eyesore', and could destroy it as part of a development plan.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Jury, Richard
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Devon coast defences - Defences of the Devon coastal crust. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of COASTAL OBSERVATION POST - S0006512
         

     (1) - exterior view (DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Adjacent 'bunker'. Other observation posts at Bishop's Walk (SX 938644) and Daddy Hole Plain (SX 926628).

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0006512

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Devon SMR (ref: SX96SW/109 and 110)
        
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1995/11/06 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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