Steep Holm Island Wartime Battery
Steep Holm is an island in the Bristol Channel off Weston-super-mare considered within North Somerset. During WWI it was fortified as a gun battery to protect shipping. A narrow-gauge railway was built to transport supplies from the quay to the top of the island. The tracks were still in place when I visited in 1983.
Location: Steep Holm Island Wartime Battery
Original line: Steep Holm Island Railway (War Department Railways)
Photographer: John Thorn
Contact photographer: John Thorn
Date: 1983
Image number: 25922
