Latest Images by Bob Embleton http://channel-islands.geographs.org/ 2013-06-20T04:14:07GMT text/html 2010-05-27T19:14:01GMT http://channel-islands.geographs.org/profile/125 Bob Embleton 49.166622 -2.170209 http://channel-islands.geographs.org/photo/404 MP1 Naval direction and range finding position. The massive 16 metre high tower was built between April and October 1943 requiring an estimated 5,000 bags of cement. A 2cm anti aircraft gun was fitted on the roof. One of only three that were built out of 9 planned around Jersey. It was thought that any two towers seeing a target could report their bearings from which the range could be determined, but was found difficult to use with multiple moving targets. The 6 metre stereoscopic range finder (seen located behind the tower) worked on its own without communication delay problems. text/html 2010-05-27T18:56:21GMT http://channel-islands.geographs.org/profile/125 Bob Embleton 49.167871 -2.168816 http://channel-islands.geographs.org/photo/403 A recovered German 15cm coastal artillery gun. Overlooking St. Aubin's Bay and St Helier in the distance, text/html 2010-05-27T18:38:51GMT http://channel-islands.geographs.org/profile/125 Bob Embleton 49.166888 -2.169793 http://channel-islands.geographs.org/photo/402 A German Occupation 6 metre wide stereoscopic range finder. After the war the arms of the range finder were thrown over the cliffs but were recovered in 1996 and the recreated device re-installed in 1997. text/html 2010-05-27T08:23:14GMT http://channel-islands.geographs.org/profile/125 Bob Embleton 49.240119 -2.249897 http://channel-islands.geographs.org/photo/401 A massive concrete German bunker built by the Todt Organisation using slave and forced labour now in use as a fish market overlooking Le Pulec Bay. text/html 2010-05-27T07:45:41GMT http://channel-islands.geographs.org/profile/125 Bob Embleton 49.252441 -2.249573 http://channel-islands.geographs.org/photo/400 The target area and rear bank of the Jersey Rifle Association 900 and 1,000 yard ranges. The Jersey Rifle Association was formed on 20 July 1861. The MP3 German Occupation observation tower is in the background. text/html 2010-05-26T18:44:19GMT http://channel-islands.geographs.org/profile/125 Bob Embleton 49.241470 -2.250151 http://channel-islands.geographs.org/photo/399 The headland and wide foreshore viewed from near the German Moltke Battery gun emplacement. text/html 2010-05-26T18:02:35GMT http://channel-islands.geographs.org/profile/125 Bob Embleton 49.244247 -2.248323 http://channel-islands.geographs.org/photo/398 This German army battery was installed in the spring of 1941. It had four captured French 15.5cm guns commanding the sea approaches to St Ouen’s Bay. The guns were dumped over the cliffs at Rouge Nez after the war, but many were raised from the sea in the 1990s and put on display. text/html 2010-05-26T12:23:00GMT http://channel-islands.geographs.org/profile/125 Bob Embleton 49.257097 -2.246204 http://channel-islands.geographs.org/photo/397 Built around 1330 making use of the natural defences of the cliffs. On the landward side the gatehouse was protected by two strong towers. All that now remains is the arch and the bases of the walls. text/html 2010-05-26T12:13:12GMT http://channel-islands.geographs.org/profile/125 Bob Embleton 49.253149 -2.247775 http://channel-islands.geographs.org/photo/396 Built in 1961, the racecourse hosts nine race meetings during the summer. There is a modern viewing bank at Les Landes with on-course bookies and the club run Tote. http://www.jerseyracing.co.uk/index.html text/html 2010-05-26T12:00:48GMT http://channel-islands.geographs.org/profile/125 Bob Embleton 49.250838 -2.252070 http://channel-islands.geographs.org/photo/395 This was fitted with a Freya radar on the summit. After the famous Bruneval raid on a radar site this tower was protected by two Anti-aircraft battery's. text/html 2010-05-25T19:19:46GMT http://channel-islands.geographs.org/profile/125 Bob Embleton 49.257369 -2.246612 http://channel-islands.geographs.org/photo/394 The entrance archway is the main remaining structure. The castle was probably demolished by the French Occupation forces between 1461 and 1468. In the foreground is what appears to be a War Dept. boundary stone. text/html 2010-05-25T18:45:12GMT http://channel-islands.geographs.org/profile/125 Bob Embleton 49.258717 -2.246454 http://channel-islands.geographs.org/photo/393 The Grosnez Point Light is also known as ARLHS JER-004 on the Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society database. text/html 2010-05-25T15:30:57GMT http://channel-islands.geographs.org/profile/125 Bob Embleton 49.257005 -2.245930 http://channel-islands.geographs.org/photo/392 Thought to have been built by Sir John des Roches in about 1330. It used the natural defences of the steep cliffs for three sides and a ditch with along the landward side where the locally quarried granite walls were thickest. text/html 2010-05-25T15:18:54GMT http://channel-islands.geographs.org/profile/125 Bob Embleton 49.255948 -2.249382 http://channel-islands.geographs.org/photo/391 Viewed from the coastal path from Les Landes observation tower to Gros Nez castle. text/html 2010-05-25T13:51:23GMT http://channel-islands.geographs.org/profile/125 Bob Embleton 49.250750 -2.252346 http://channel-islands.geographs.org/photo/390 The third of three direction and range-finding towers built on the Jersey coast, out of a planned total of nine. MP3 mounted a huge radar aerial of the Freya type on its roof.