35th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)
35th Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Anti-Aircraft Command in the British Territorial Army (TA) formed shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. It defended the important naval base of Portsmouth during The Blitz.
An ATS spotter at a 3.7-inch AA gun site, December 1942
Home Guard soldiers load a single launcher on a static 'Z' Battery, July 1942
Fort Fareham is one of the Palmerston Forts, in Fareham, England. After the Gosport Advanced Line of Fort Brockhurst, Fort Elson, Fort Rowner, Fort Grange and Fort Gomer had been approved by the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom a decision was made to build an outer line of three more forts two miles in advance of the Gosport Advanced Line. Of these three projected forts only Fort Fareham was built due to the need to cut costs. It acted as a hinge between the forts on Portsdown Hill and those of the Gosport Advanced Line, filling the gap at Fareham. It has been a Grade II Listed Building since 1976.
The north face of the derelict west caponier at Fort Fareham
Fort Fareham north casemates with steps to ramparts and officers' mess beyond
Fort Fareham top plan