WWII Coastal Defence Fortifications

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Godley Head Fortress Area
1939 -1956
WWII COASTAL DEFENCE FORTIFICATIONS

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**Godley Head Fortress**
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Miscellaneous Fortifications

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Notice: As the Godley Head Heritage Trust now has its own website I am no longer going to maintain this page. I produced it from concern for the future of Godley Head but that is now secure under the wing of the trust. Some of my material is inaccurate and is better left to the experts. The Trust website contains all the information regarding history and access. For more information on Godley Head Fortress Area I suggest you visit the Godley Head heritage Trust
Maps & Aerial Photo of Godley Head Fortress Area
Click on the links below for Maps & Aerial Photos of Godley Head Fortress Area
	Aerial Photo


Guard Houses

1. Guard House on Summit Road entrance to Godley Head		2. Guard House overlooking Breeze Bay (Not visible from road)


Livingstone Bay Guard Houses above Livingstone bay

Two guard houses below the road above Livingstone bay (Not visible from road)


Two MG Pill boxes above road facing valley looking down on Taylors Mistake

"A" gun pillbox	"B" gun pillbox	Lewis gun pintle inside "B" gun pillbox	Looking through the embrasure of "B" gun down on Taylors Mistake
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Lower Battery Observation Post (BOP 3)

Lower Observation Post exterior	Inside the OP, shows the intact range finder pedestal	Remains of an air raid shelter trench


Upper Battery Observation Post (BOP 1)

Upper Observation Post exterior		Godley Head from the Upper OP


Power House Complex

Power House complex& miniature range	Predictor room	Power house	Power house interior Once housed two Dorman diesel generators


Overall views of the Godley Head Fortifications

A view looking back towards the hillside OP's	Godley head from the air during construction 1939


The Godley Head Fortress Area 6" Battery

Entrance road to gun position	No 1 Gun shelter	No 2 Gun shelter	No 1 & 2 gun structures

No 2 gun pit	No 3 gun pit	No 3 gun, first firing 1950


Battery Support Buildings

Radar station, predictor room and generator room On the site of the first lighthouse, demolished to make way for the guns	Radar array, 1950	RA and REME stores


The Magazines

No 2 gun magazine, steep stairs lead down to the magazine, steel doors and blast cavity at the entrance to the shell room.			No 3 gun magazine, like the gun pit a later addition and different design. An external hoist and stairs leading into the magazine (Locked, the fence a later addition)


THE GODLEY HEAD GUN POSITION 4" Gun Emplacements (Taylor Battery)

View of the 6in position from the Godley head 6" position		"Taylor" 2 gun 6in Battery. Damage to No 1 gun probably the result of an Army demolition exercise after the position was abandoned in 1942.

Godley Head 6in Battery from the "Taylor" 6in Battery


Cliff top Searchlight Observation Post (BOP2)

Cliff top OP from where the searchlights were operated	The interior of the Cliff top OP. The searchlights were operated remotely by cables and pulley's from here.	Cliff top OP looking over the Entrance to Lyttelton harbour	A view of Aderly Head and the entrance to Lyttleton harbour from inside the OP


Searchlight positions at base of cliffs

The access tunnel (built by hardrock miners from Reefton) to the searchlight positions	No 1 searchlight from the lighthouse on the cliffs bellow the guns	No 2 searchlight position

Artillery units at Godly Head

RHQ Godley Head
80 Battery Godley Head: northern Mainland entrance to Lyttleton Harbour
- three 6" Mk 24
- Two 4-in MK VII

1948-56
12 Heavy Anti Aircraft Regt (HAA)


A gun crew of 12 HAA in training in Waiouru	12 HAA Regt Godley Head


Godly Head is open to the public and administered by the Godley Head Heritage Trust under the direction of the Department of conservation Contact the Godley Head heritage Trust PO Box 354 Christchurch. Website: The Godley Head heritage Trust Email: Paul Wilkins Historian Godley Head Heritage trust

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