Searchlight battery – Denis Mardel

Denis MardelDenis remembers during the war there being a searchlight battery behind Cottonmill Lane. He remembers the soldiers and the Nissen huts and the fenced in area with the searchlight which would have extended near where the bottom of his garden in Abbots Avenue West and Creighton Avenue and Mandeville Drive are today.

Interview date: 6 May 2015. Interviewer: Sandy Norman

 

 

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