AKAK Guns Sheffield

[stewybill 10]

Hello to all.

 

I’m trying to find out where anti aircraft guns were located around Sheffield.

 

Can anyone help please ?

 

Thanks.

[melthebell 863]

theres a 2007 thread on sheffield history where somebody has posted map co ordinates for them

https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/1679-aa-sites-in-sheffield/

[gregnig 10]

One at the top of 'the white drive' which runs by the side of The Shepley Spitfire, Totley.

Lower down from the gun site was a large wooden hut which I assume was used by the army. After the war, it became a base for the Phoenix Cycling club.

[Billam 10]

Hello to all.

 

I’m trying to find out where anti aircraft guns were located around Sheffield.

 

Can anyone help please ?

 

Thanks.

When I was a boy my nan was in a wheelchair, I used to accompany family members who took her out. I remember we went down Lightwood Lane, Norton, my Dad and uncles pointed out the old gun emplacements in the fields.

[St Petre 85]

Three that I have heard of (tho' not born then): High Hazels Park, Wincobank Hill and Shirecliffe where the heliport used to be. Of course, there had to be more.

[kris99 11]

I've looked at the pictures of AKAK guns at Warminster Road on Picture Sheffield. Does anybody know the exact site?

Edited October 9, 2018 by kris99
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[stewybill 10]

Many thanks for all the very interesting stuff above.

People round here talk of one in Treeton Woods.

I cannot find mention of it ?

 

Bill.

[melthebell 863]

Many thanks for all the very interesting stuff above.

People round here talk of one in Treeton Woods.

I cannot find mention of it ?

 

Bill.

could see one there to protect orgreave? and the trees would hide the gun well enough tbh

 

Bit on here at the end about treeton.....

http://www.kivetonwaleshistory.co.uk/heritage/the-history-of-the-pits/pit-villages-at-war

 

Over in a quarry at Treeton, large naval guns sent heavy calibre shells up into the night sky: the shrapnel could be heard coming down on the rooftops of Kiveton and Wales. Many residents were down in cellars, basements and air-raid shelters. Two of the shelters still survive here in Kiveton: a sophisticated underground bunker and a more famous Anderson shelter.

 

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Info about the one at Wincobank here

http://www.wincobanklivinghistory.co.uk/home/anti-aircraft-gun-emplacement.aspx

Edited October 9, 2018 by melthebell