EAW030550 ENGLAND (1950). Purfleet Camp, Beacon Hill and environs, Beacon Hill, from the south-east, 1950
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| Title | [EAW030550] Purfleet Camp, Beacon Hill and environs, Beacon Hill, from the south-east, 1950 |
| Reference | EAW030550 |
| Date | 28-June-1950 |
| Link | |
| Place name | BEACON HILL |
| Parish | |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 555510, 178483 |
| Longitude / Latitude | 0.23989613276622, 51.483405075799 |
| National Grid Reference | TQ555785 |
Pins
 Purfleet Camp, yet a further 40 huts and support buildings were in this rectangle of land in 1915. |
 Kentishman |
Monday 3rd of October 2016 06:42:37 PM |
| Number 7 magazine, built 1910 for the storage of Cordite.
See: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol8/pp57-74 |
Kentishman |
Thursday 8th of September 2016 10:49:45 PM |
| Beacon Hill. Trinity House built a lighthouse here in 1828 to test new types of lamps and reflectors and the lighting values of different types of oil. It was taken out of use in the 1870s.
See http://edithsstreets.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/riverside-north-of-thames-and-east-of.html
This was also said to be the site of a World War 1 anti-aircraft battery which claimed to have been the first to shoot down a Zeppelin (L15), although this was also claimed by the crew of an anti-aircraft gun at the Brent in Dartford. |
Kentishman |
Thursday 8th of September 2016 10:20:20 PM |
| Purfleet Camp, per the OS map revised 1915, pub 1921, there were another 40 huts plus support buildings on this side of the railway. |
Kentishman |
Thursday 8th of September 2016 09:58:22 PM |
| Per the OS map revised 1915, pub 1921, there were a further 3 rows of huts going east as far as the railway. |
Kentishman |
Thursday 8th of September 2016 09:54:35 PM |
| 'Military Hospital' as shown on 6 inch to the mile OS map revised 1915, published 1921. |
Kentishman |
Thursday 8th of September 2016 09:51:01 PM |
| Purfleet rifle range |
Kentishman |
Sunday 4th of September 2016 05:01:32 PM |
| Purfleet Station |
Kentishman |
Sunday 4th of September 2016 04:59:39 PM |
| Purfleet Rifle Range Station |
Kentishman |
Sunday 4th of September 2016 04:56:01 PM |
User Comment Contributions
 This image shows the remains of an extensive WW1 army training camp, a military hospital and the site of and anti-aircraft gun whose crew claimed to have shot down Zeppelin L15, the first to be destroyed over Britain. |
Kentishman |
Thursday 8th of September 2016 10:23:50 PM |