Site of Second World War ‘Diver’ Site No. K15, Central Avenue, north of Frinton (EHER 21358)

Site of a Second World War heavy anti aircraft (Diver) battery in the Diver Strip at Frinton on Sea. It was listed as unarmed and unmanned on 24th November 1944. It is now destroyed and built over by houses.

A report, compiled in 1996 from wartime documentation, lists the ‘Diver’ anti-aircraft gun sites in east Essex in summer/autumn 1944. Site No K15, at Military Grid Reference M694386, is recorded on 24 November 1944 as unarmed and unmanned. <1> An aerial photograph taken in July 1946 shows the area very clearly. The site was to the north of Frinton on the coast. It lay on each side of Central Avenue, south of the railway line. Around 30 huts can be counted, mainly Nissen. The wartime position of the guns can usually be made out from parch marks. Here, none can be seen and it is not known if guns were in fact emplaced before of after the 24 November date. <2> Visited in January 2010, the area is now completely built over by housing. No new information from NRHE