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English: Downing Point Coast Battery gun emplacement and QE2 FORTH DEFENCES; WORLD WAR I

Initially fitted with 4.7 inch guns pre-ww1, and these were replaced by 2x2pounders in 1917 just before the battery was decommissioned.

View toward the Forth Bridge from WW1 gun emplacement on Downing Point. QE2 sits at anchor on final farewell visit to Scotland before retirement from Cunard operations. She is destined to become a floating hotel in Dubai. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1002142

Later: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1002394

For more information on the Downing Point Coast Battery

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/search/fr.cfm?rcn=CBA_DOB-13541
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Camera location56° 01′ 40″ N, 3° 21′ 09″ W  Heading=225° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Object location56° 01′ 37″ N, 3° 21′ 15″ W  Heading=225° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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