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Braefoot Plantation Dalgety Bay Battery
This is the battery at Braefoot Plantation, Dalgety Bay, Fife. Work began in late 1914 to make a battery for two 9.2 inch guns to cover the Firth of Forth, but not all the planned refinements were completed.
This is one end of the defended barracks block. The site was abandoned in late 1917-no-one knows why-but re-used in WW2.
The magazine, built directly into a purpose-cut gully in the hillside. Two Narrow Gauge Railway lines ran from here to the gunpits.
This blockhouse sits on the shore beneath the battery and guards the jetty used to bring supplies up.
The other gunpit. The Forestry Commission acquired the land after WW2 and extensively planted it with native British species of trees.
This is the Battery Observation Post and Command Posts, from where any engagement would have been directed.
And from a different angle.
This blockhouse sits on the highest point of the hill, overlooking the battery.
One of three pillboxes on the site. They are thought to have been built in WW1.
However it has recently been noticed that they were built using a porous design of brick not thought to have been used before WW2.
The third pillbox was built directly overhanging the cliff. If these ARE ww2 pillboxes, they are an extremely unusual type.
Another shot of the number one gunpit.
A house was built in an identical gunpit at the now demolished battery at Kinghorn.
The rear of the defended barracks. Between the two blocks were the cookhouse and dining rooms.
The supply jetty.
These blocks held the palisade fence which protected the battery perimeter in lieu of barbed wire. The original War Office plans show trenches surrounding the battery, but these were never built.
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