MOD Shoeburyness

[3] Horseshoe Barracks and various other amenities were added not long afterwards and the site was extended to cover some 200 acres lying between Ness Road and the coast.[4] Alongside its use as a training facility, the ranges were used for experimental trials of guns, rockets and explosives and for the testing of armour and defensive works.[2] As the scale of these experiments began to outgrow the site, its gun emplacements were adapted for seaward firing and it later specialized in coastal artillery training.[2] As early as 1865 the Ordnance Select Committee was recommending the purchase of additional land at Shoeburyness, to accommodate the increasing power and range of artillery then in development.In 1940 the Coast Artillery School was moved from Shoebury to Great Orme, Llandudno,[8] where it remained for the rest of the Second World War, before relocating to Plymouth.[4] Several buildings and structures on the site are listed, including the cart and wagon shed, which is used as a heritage and community centre; together they are described by Historic England as constituting "a complete mid-19th century barracks".
Cannon outside the Garrison Church of St Peter and St Paul, Horseshoe Barracks
Delivery by barge of an Armstrong 110-ton gun to the Old Ranges in 1888
Memorial plaque unveiled in 1985
Experimental firing of an Ordnance QF 25-pounder gun by women of the ATS in 1943; the shell is fired through apparatus that measures its velocity
Horseshoe Barracks, now converted for use as private housing
MOD buildings, Shoeburyness, 2014
Women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service recovering shells from the Shoeburyness mud flats at low tide during World War II.
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