Comments on: Barrow Haven Anti Aircraft Battery WWII http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii A Site About Everything and Nothing Thu, 17 May 2012 20:32:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Barrow Haven Anti Aircraft Battery WWII by: Paul http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-27767 Sat, 05 May 2012 16:36:08 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-27767 I sorry if anyone thinks I am tying to detract from the main subject of the Anti aircraft battery, but there seems to be some knowlagble folks here on Barrow Heavan. My Fathesr side of the family owned Day's boat builing company at Barrow Heavan and any info on the yard would be greatly appreatiated. Or if any one remembers it. many thanks, Paul. I sorry if anyone thinks I am tying to detract from the main subject of the Anti aircraft battery, but there seems to be some knowlagble folks here on Barrow Heavan.
My Fathesr side of the family owned Day’s boat builing company at Barrow Heavan and any info on the yard would be greatly appreatiated. Or if any one remembers it.
many thanks,
Paul.

]]> Comment on Barrow Haven Anti Aircraft Battery WWII by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-26939 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:41:56 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-26939 IHB, thanks for the kind words and welcome ot the site - pleased you like the content mix, really helps to know, many thanks for the feedback. All the best Rod IHB,
thanks for the kind words and welcome ot the site - pleased you like the content mix, really helps to know, many thanks for the feedback.
All the best
Rod

]]> Comment on Barrow Haven Anti Aircraft Battery WWII by: Inuvik History Buff http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-26935 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:24:39 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-26935 I really like the way you mix it up/ Young with history with hip. Not your regular guy. Your photos are great and I like that you enjoy the hostory of what you are taking oics of. Please please add a comment button to your main menu as I wanted to commend you efforts in general, and connect it to a photo, could not find the button. Thanks for your honor of the past and appreciation of its glory to our generation. Happy trails! Janelle I really like the way you mix it up/ Young with history with hip. Not your regular guy. Your photos are great and I like that you enjoy the hostory of what you are taking oics of. Please please add a comment button to your main menu as I wanted to commend you efforts in general, and connect it to a photo, could not find the button. Thanks for your honor of the past and appreciation of its glory to our generation. Happy trails!
Janelle

]]> Comment on Barrow Haven Anti Aircraft Battery WWII by: Ron Berry http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-26308 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:41:22 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-26308 After WW2 the camp at Barrow Avon became a TA Weekend Camp and one of my uncles was a full-time clerk there. My wife, prior to our marriage, was in the TA at Barton and often went to Barrow Avon for a week-end camp as a radar operator. After WW2 the camp at Barrow Avon became a TA Weekend Camp and one of my uncles was a full-time clerk there. My wife, prior to our marriage, was in the TA at Barton and often went to Barrow Avon for a week-end camp as a radar operator.

]]> Comment on Barrow Haven Anti Aircraft Battery WWII by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-24630 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:58:38 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-24630 John, I'll bear that in mind when I plan my next trip - get the right day for a change Thanks and regards Rod John,
I’ll bear that in mind when I plan my next trip - get the right day for a change
Thanks and regards
Rod

]]> Comment on Barrow Haven Anti Aircraft Battery WWII by: John Andrew http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-24620 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:57:41 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-24620 Hello Rod, Baysgarth House Museum is open 12-4pm every Friday Saturday Sunday & Bank Holidays except Christmas & New Year weekends and is run by a charity called CHAMP.You seem to be a cycle enthusiast so you would be interested in the Elswick Hopper Cycles display and Nigel Land's book about the company. Regards John. Hello Rod,
Baysgarth House Museum is open 12-4pm every Friday Saturday Sunday & Bank Holidays except Christmas & New Year weekends and is run by a charity called CHAMP.You seem to be a cycle enthusiast so you would be interested in the Elswick Hopper Cycles display and Nigel Land’s book about the company.
Regards John.

]]> Comment on Barrow Haven Anti Aircraft Battery WWII by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-24617 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:56:15 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-24617 John, they're great memories your putting down for us here, great in the proper sense of course. I'll check out the search - I've been unlucky with the museum, tried it 3 or 4 times but I always seem to be there when it's shut :( No specific OBs that I know of John Best Rod John,
they’re great memories your putting down for us here, great in the proper sense of course.
I’ll check out the search - I’ve been unlucky with the museum, tried it 3 or 4 times but I always seem to be there when it’s shut :(

No specific OBs that I know of John
Best
Rod

]]> Comment on Barrow Haven Anti Aircraft Battery WWII by: John Andrew http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-24614 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:01:51 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-24614 Hello again Rod, I think I was probably just exited but Dad must have been worried for me because he had been wounded by shrapnel in Belgium during the First World War. Dad was leader of the Barton Auxilliary Unit so he was on the alert every time there was an air raid in case it was the start of the expected invasion. He was not too keen on me being out with him after the shrapnel incident. If you type into your computer "auxunit news" and click onto Sugar Loaf Patrol at the bottom right of the page you will find pictures of Dads O.B. [dugout], the last photo shows Hull in the distance. I will give you a guided tour if you like. Have you found any O.B.s on your travels? There is more about Dad in Baysgarth House Museum at Barton-on-Humber where I am a volunteer. Regards, John. Hello again Rod,
I think I was probably just exited but Dad must have been worried for me because he had been wounded by shrapnel in Belgium during the First World War. Dad was leader of the Barton Auxilliary Unit so he was on the alert every time there was an air raid in case it was the start of the expected invasion. He was not too keen on me being out with him after the shrapnel incident.
If you type into your computer “auxunit news” and click onto Sugar Loaf Patrol at the bottom right of the page you will find pictures of Dads O.B. [dugout], the last photo shows Hull in the distance. I will give you a guided tour if you like. Have you found any O.B.s on your travels? There is more about Dad in Baysgarth House Museum at Barton-on-Humber where I am a volunteer.
Regards, John.

]]> Comment on Barrow Haven Anti Aircraft Battery WWII by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-24595 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:27:11 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-24595 John, what an experience for a young boy - I wonder whether it was terrifying or exciting - perhaps a mixture of both. Some have told me they loved the wartime as boys, apart form the food, too young to understand the horrors of it so it all seemed like an adventure. Thanks for sharing this John All the best Rod John,
what an experience for a young boy - I wonder whether it was terrifying or exciting - perhaps a mixture of both.
Some have told me they loved the wartime as boys, apart form the food, too young to understand the horrors of it so it all seemed like an adventure.
Thanks for sharing this John
All the best
Rod

]]> Comment on Barrow Haven Anti Aircraft Battery WWII by: John Andrew http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-24580 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:08:50 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/barrow-haven-anti-aircraft-battery-wwii#comment-24580 Hello Rod, On nights when the Germans were bombing Hull I stood outside our house at Grange Farm Barton-on-Humber with my Father watching the fires burning, bombs exploding, searchlights occasionally finding an enemy plane then losing it in the smoke. Sometimes the searchlights would pick out a barrage balloon which looked like a large silver fish. Usually the planes flew higher than the balloons to avoid the balloon cables.All this time the anti aircraft guns at Barrow Haven and other sites would be firing at the planes circling Hull, some of them came over us. One night we were watching anti aircraft shells bursting over the Humber when something hit the house and screeched into the grass just near us. I couldn't find it that night but I dug it out the next day and found it to be a shell splinter five inches long one inch wide and about half an inch thick and jagged round the edges Plenty close enouph for a lad of twelve. Please e-mail me. Keep up the good work. Regards John Hello Rod,
On nights when the Germans were bombing Hull I stood outside our house at Grange Farm Barton-on-Humber with my Father watching the fires burning, bombs exploding, searchlights occasionally finding an enemy plane then losing it in the smoke. Sometimes the searchlights would pick out a barrage balloon which looked like a large silver fish. Usually the planes flew higher than the balloons to avoid the balloon cables.All this time the anti aircraft guns at Barrow Haven and other sites would be firing at the planes circling Hull, some of them came over us.
One night we were watching anti aircraft shells bursting over the Humber when something hit the house and screeched into the grass just near us. I couldn’t find it that night but I dug it out the next day and found it to be a shell splinter five inches long one inch wide and about half an inch thick and jagged round the edges Plenty close enouph for a lad of twelve.
Please e-mail me. Keep up the good work. Regards John

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