Entrance Bridge
The North Weald Mobilisation Centre is also known as North Weald Redoubt. The original purpose was to provide a munitions store for the section of the defence line in the area of Kelvedon Hatch. It remained in use as a munitions store following the abandonment of the London Defence in 1906. When the line was reactivated in WW1, it again formed part of the plans.
The flooded centre of the Fort.
In the 1920's it was acquired by the Marconi Company and became part of their Ongar Radio Station. Due to the radio station being identified as vulnerable, the Fort once more became a military site. Part of this involved the installation of two Allen Williams Turrets and part of the magazine complex being converted into a dressing station. Over the years the Fort passed through various owners, the last being British Telecom, who sold the site in 1995 to a property development company. Since 1995, it has been, despite the erection of security fences, open to vandals and left unmaintained. Due to the lack of attention the site is now covered in graffiti, flooded and the surface buildings badly damaged.
One of the two Allen Williams Turrets.
Front Casemates
Main Casemates.
Flooded Parade Ground.
Concrete base for one of the Marconi radio masts.
Open fields around the site, with remains of the radio masts visable.
Concrete road which originally linked up the various parts of the site.
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