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UER Forum > Canada: Other > Halifax Defence Complex (Viewed 494352 times)
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< Reply # 320 on 12/30/2011 10:57 PM >
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They're light emplacements. The foundations getting so washed out around the three at York Shore Battery, they'll be falling into the ocean sooner or later.


I'm guessing they would have been to house machine guns or something similar, do you know? The structures seemed really unsafe when I went, the area is now fenced off as of several months ago it didn't used to be.




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< Reply # 321 on 12/30/2011 11:07 PM >
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I'm guessing they would have been to house machine guns or something similar, do you know? The structures seemed really unsafe when I went, the area is now fenced off as of several months ago it didn't used to be.


I think they just housed lights. Big search lights.

What area is fenced off now specifically? The whole of York Shore Battery had been fenced in a few years ago. I'm wondering if the three light emplacements now have their own secondary fencing?




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< Reply # 322 on 12/31/2011 1:13 AM >
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I think they just housed lights. Big search lights.

What area is fenced off now specifically? The whole of York Shore Battery had been fenced in a few years ago. I'm wondering if the three light emplacements now have their own secondary fencing?


All three emplacements had large searchlights, there's still just the one fence that was placed there a few years ago. Although, if you walk down the shore past YSB about 30-40 metres, there's an old generator bunker up on the hill/cliff that also once housed a 4.7in gun.

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The only guns along the shore were the two 12-pounders that were transferred from Fort Ives in 1939, and they were replaced with 6-pounders later in the war.



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I think they just housed lights. Big search lights.

What area is fenced off now specifically? The whole of York Shore Battery had been fenced in a few years ago. I'm wondering if the three light emplacements now have their own secondary fencing?


The bottom section with the outpost and little rooms has been fenced off, but you can easily walk around the fence.

http://g.co/maps/afsmf




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< Reply # 324 on 12/31/2011 6:02 PM >
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The bottom section with the outpost and little rooms has been fenced off, but you can easily walk around the fence.

http://g.co/maps/afsmf


That's York Shore Battery. IIRC, it's been fenced off since before those retards had a rave there.

I love the kind of fencing that says "hey, we tried to stop you" but makes only minimal effort to do so.




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< Reply # 325 on 12/31/2011 11:10 PM >
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York Shore has been fenced off since about 3-6 months before the rave. There really ought to be another fence on the other side to keep people from getting to the light emplacements. The earth beneath the third one (farthest away from battery) is almost completely gone now.




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< Reply # 326 on 2/2/2012 9:42 PM >
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The old church below York Redoubt has now been converted into a private residence.





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< Reply # 327 on 2/2/2012 10:49 PM >
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That would be a hell of a house. I suppose nobody will be able to park up there anymore.




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< Reply # 328 on 2/6/2012 3:06 PM >
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I saw the 'for sale' sign and tried to communicate with them to pretend I was an interested buyer, so I could check the place out and take pics. But they never called me back




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< Reply # 329 on 3/29/2012 10:07 PM >
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http://www.bryantr..._listings/40079733

It's still for sale, only $299,999 and it can be yours!




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< Reply # 330 on 4/21/2012 11:25 PM >
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I took a run out to York Redoubt today. Went to the tunnels, cave and then down to York Shore Battery.

More graffiti than I remember, but it's more or less the same. One tunnel is open, the other isn't.

It was busy out there this afternoon. Everywhere I went, someone was already there, or on my heels. With the exception of York Shore Battery, I didn't see anyone on the path on the way there, nor did I encounter anyone inside the fence. Maybe it's working as a deterrent after all.

Pics, more here.




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< Reply # 331 on 4/30/2012 3:04 AM >
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Great images, that spider will make me think twice about going into that tunnel though!




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< Reply # 332 on 5/6/2012 6:56 PM >
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The church at the Redoubt has a 'Sold' sign on it now. I fear that there will be a fence and possibly weird cultists making the back entrance impassable soon.

Also, did anyone see this place at the Redoubt before? I found it a few days ago while GeoCaching, and I haven't spotted it in the DB:


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< Reply # 333 on 5/6/2012 8:03 PM >
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That spot doesn't look familiar to me. Hmmm




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< Reply # 334 on 5/6/2012 10:08 PM >
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Never seen that one before, where was it?




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< Reply # 335 on 5/7/2012 7:14 PM >
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No Graffiti. No trash. Is this possibly a new find?




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Need more info!!




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Although, it may be best to discuss it in a more secure thread as it looks undisturbed and its best to keep it that way.




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If that's off the beaten path, please don't draw us a map here!




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< Reply # 339 on 5/8/2012 2:55 PM >
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If that's off the beaten path, please don't draw us a map here!


It has what I thought was a deer path leading to it, so other people know it exists (even if those people are Parks Canada). There's not a bit of garbage or graffiti inside, so it's either a whole new find or it's hidden well enough that the hooligans don't know where it is.


It's not far from the road, but there's no obvious path leading to it. I can put up a gallery in the DB as part of York Shore Battery, so it'll only be available to full members.
However, there's not a lot to it and the pics I put up already show you most of what there is to see. I'm not sure it warrants it's own gallery.

Thoughts?



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