ANTI-AIRCRAFT RANGE TONFANAU, MERIONETHSHIRE, NORTH WALES

29^th April 1954 to 27^th June 1956

Contributed by George MILLIE

Map showing the position of Tonfanau Camp to the north of Towyn

Detail map of Tonfanau Camp and Anti-Aircraft Range

Aerial view of Tonfanau Anti-Aircraft Range looking eastward from Cardigan Bay

The single-track railway can be seen running across the photograph from left to right (north-south), with the Camp complex to the east (upper portion) and the Anti-Aircraft Range and REME Workshops occupying the narrow strip of land between the railway and the beach

These buildings are on the eastern boundary of Tonfanau Camp

The building (left-foreground) was the barrack block occupied by Permanent Staff REME other ranks

Heavy anti-aircraft artillery guns live-firing on the Range

NAAFI Break – a group of visiting Gunners and WRACs

Tonfanau beach

The weekend card school

A regular all-weekend pastime for some

The ascent of Cader Idris

My climbing companion

The descent: a tarn on the other side of the mountain

More photographs

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