All Guns Blazing On Relic ; Pounds 500,000 Plan for Wartime Battery

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LONG-awaited plans to turn a rare collection of wartime relics into a visitor and education complex have been given the final green light thanks to a pounds 525,000 package of funding.

Blyth Battery - which was built on the town's seaside links to defend the port during two world wars - has been described as the best surviving example of an anti-aircraft battery on the east coast of Britain.

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All Guns Blazing On Relic ; Pounds 500,000 Plan for Wartime Battery

For more than a decade, Blyth Valley Council and local heritage enthusiasts have been working to bring the collection of buildings back into use as...

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