Yearbook Update 1990

The opening of the No.1 gun emplacement's crew shelter in August 1990.    The first picture shows Vic Stevenson watching his friend and welder Don Morrow hammering on the door hinges to loosen them up. Don also had cut through the welded metal that sealed the doors using a carborundum wheel.  Our summer museum assistant, Jose Abundo, is behind Vic.   The second photo shows Vic forcing the steel door open after lubricating the hinges and, then, the state of the damp and mouldy interior festooned with hanging cobwebs.  The ready ammunition locker doors had already been replaced - some salvaged from the No.3 emplacement - and had painted the metalwork black.  A backhoe was used to excavate the dirt that had filled the passageway up to the mid-point of the doors.  Captain {ret'd} Keith Brown was a member of our work party.  There was not much inside, apart from some duckboards.  The rotted floor had to be replaced.  Photos and story from Peter Moogk.