Monument record 4142/0/1 - Searchlight Battery at Thornton-le-Moors

Searchlight battery at Thornton-le-Moors. Manned by 352 Company of 38 (The King's Regiment) AA Battalion RE. It was in Section 11, Number 16. It was part of the Liverpool defences and is part of a much larger distribution that covered large areas of Cheshire, some of which are shown as part of this group. However this list is far from exhaustive and should only be considered as an example of searchlight layouts for the war (1). Several clear features on the 1940s aerial photos and cropmarks on engineering photos strongly suggest the position of the battery.

<1> C S Dobinson, 2000, Twentieth Century Fortifications in England: Supporting paper AA/1; Searchlight Sites in WWII (Report). SCH4458.

<2> Various, Aerial photographs, RAF 1940s (Aerial Photograph). SCH128.

<3> Various, Aerial photographs, Box 9014 Engineering Aps (Aerial Photograph). SCH128.