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Originally Posted by TubbyLes
The presence of generators would suggest searchlights.I did not see evidence of any large gun emplacements,but they would have been in short supply at the time,small arms and rifles would be the limit.Another possibility would have been a barrage balloon,but these were nearer to towns or important sites.So,it's looking like an observation and searchlight post.The location is off the A56 by-pass as on the attached Google Earth grabs.
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A lot depends on the size of the generators. Most searchlight batteries, exept those around major cities and defence/military sites, were mobile as were the generators for them, the same applied to barrage balloons.
It could well have been a communications site -the receiver antennae could have been part of the site but the transmitter antennae would probably hae been some distance away and connected by cable, of which there should still be me sign of it.
Being so far away from habitation wireless communications would have been essential, so whatever the use it would have had some form of wireless link, probably VHF, which in that location would have given quite a reasonable range. In all probability it is an observation post run by the Observer Corps with just a small possibility that it was Home Guard.
The generators, bunk beds would tend to suggest that it was manned and operational 24/7. I will try and have a look at it when I am in Accrington next month.