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Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery
Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery

©NTPL/Dennis Gilbert

Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery, containing an exhibition on Britain's secret rocket testing programme during the Cold War. Between 1956-71 the New Battery was used by Saunders Roe for testing the Black Knight and Black Arrow space rocket engines, prior to the rockets being shipped to Woomera for launching.

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NTPL Ref. No 165183
Property Name The Needles Old Battery

Inside the New Battery, on a separate site further up the headland from the Old Battery

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