The Needles Battery Photo Gallery

Most of the photographs on this page have been provided by National Trust volunteers with their agreement to display them here. You are asked to respect the ownership and if you wish to use them permission must be sought. In most instances the original image file can be supplied if it is for personal use. In the case of the black and white photographs you are cordially requested not to reproduce them in any form. Click here to read the copyright notice.

Contributions from visitors to this website will be welcomed, especially photographs of an historic nature from whatever period of the Batteries past. To view an enlarged image click the small image or title.


The Needles Old Battery


Old Battery

9.5" Guns

9.5" Guns

9.5" Gun

Command Post

Command Post

Signal Station

Tunnel

Searchlight

Lamp Passge

Laboratory

Laboratory

Shell Store

Shell Store

Winch Room

Shell Store

Powder Magazine

Powder Magazine

Powder Magazine

Ditch

Campbell Engine

Lister Generator

Conscripts

Guard

Gun Positions

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The Needles New Battery


Prospero

Black Arrow

Saracen

The Rocketeers

Magazine

Access Ladder

Lamp Room

Entrance

Entrance

Entrance

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Rocket Site & Testing


Mike Elliot

Site Construction

Site Construction

Site Construction

Site Construction

Preparation Area

Black Knight

Black Knight

Black Knight

Fuelling

Black Knight

Black Knight

Preparation Area

Roadway

Rocket Test Site

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Landscape Gallery


Old Battery

The Needles

Alum Bay

West Wight

Headon Warren

Hatherwood Point

The Needles

The Needles

The Needles

West Wight

Orchids

Warren Farm

West Wight

Headon Warren

Tennyson's Bridge

Scratchell's Bay

Lighthouse

The Needles