Archive for March, 2008

Wilton Woods, Auxiliary Unit OB

The Auxiliary Units were to be Britains own resistance should a German invasion have been successful.

Their existance was top secret and only acknowledged by the government in the 1990s.

Little remains of this local “OB” or Operational Base except a few depressions in the ground which become covered in wild garlic most of the year,

 Wilton Woods Auxiliary Unit OB 5 Wilton Woods Auxiliary Unit OB 4 Wilton Woods Auxiliary Unit OB 3 Wilton Woods Auxiliary Unit OB 1

There is an excellent diagram here that lets you relate to what’s still visible.

Its most easily located by walking to the end of the promentary above where two stream meet.

 

Kettleness Ironstone Drift

Cat Beck Ironstone Trial Drift

Huntcliffe Ironstone Mine Guibal Fanhouse

Huntcliff Sculptures

Hartlepool to Middleton Ferry Steps

Sandwell Gate, Hartlepool Headland

Andy Capp Statue, Hartlepool Headland

Bathing Pool, Hartlepool Headland

The Royal Exchange, Middlesbrough

John Wesley Memorial, Kildale

Armouth Wath, Coal Mine, Baysdale

Hartlepool Lighthouse

Captured Sebastopol Cannon, Hartlepool

Baysdale Abbey, Ancient Bridge.

Throston Engine House, Hartlepool

Donna Cross, near Cringle Moor