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Completed in 1904 the battery was built and mounted two 9.2in and two 6in guns and in 1905 it was decided that only 9.2in guns were needed and the 6in guns could be removed, and so the were in 1909. During World War I, a 4.7in QF gun was mounted in the left-hand emplacement and remained until 1928. By 1932 two 6in Mark VII guns were mounted in the vacant 6in emplacement. In 1940 protection manlets were built for 6in guns and the 9.2in guns giving them a turret effect. In 1949 the 6in gun were activated for Territorial Army training and in 1956 the guns were scapped and sold. Two years before, the 9.2in guns were scapped onsite. The battery is now Nodes Point Holiday Park, the gun emplacements have either been burried or demolished, but their posistion it easly recognisable. The guardhouse now the reception and drill hall considerably altered is the dining and recreation area. The ferro-concrete wall survives to it's full height and virtually its full length.
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