Minefield control tower - Oban - April 2012
 

There is a minefield control tower at Gallanach overlooking the Sound of Kerrera; it lies on the hillside on the south side of a caravan park.

This is an unusual building with only one other example still extant at Burnham on Crouch in Essex.

The building is a circular concrete structure with three stories. The bottom floor has two level loopholes and internally resembles a pillbox with two small rooms in the centre. There is a ladder up to the next floor which also has loopholes. There is a roof dome above with observation slits which is reached by a second ladder up to a steel landing, most of which has fallen away.


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Thanks for looking...

Thats a bonny bit o concrete.

What a random building but nice pics :) Love the one looking out

Nicely done dude :cool1

Awesome!

That'd make a sweet Cabin, cheers for posting!