{"id":8690,"date":"2018-09-30T11:34:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T10:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/?p=8690"},"modified":"2025-06-23T17:34:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:34:53","slug":"walls-battery-south-walls-hoy-coast-artillery-battery-s0015232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/walls-battery-south-walls-hoy-coast-artillery-battery-s0015232\/","title":{"rendered":"Walls Battery, South Walls, Hoy. Coast Artillery Battery: S0015232"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are four searchlights installed here and a Twin 6pdr with no overhead cover or director tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictures below from June 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boundary Stone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Engine room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Extreme range photo’s taken from Pentalina Ferry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are four searchlights installed here and a Twin 6pdr with no overhead cover or director tower. Pictures below from June 2025. Extreme range photo’s taken from Pentalina Ferry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567,463],"tags":[694,103,693,276,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-8690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gun-battery","8":"category-orkney","9":"tag-artillery","10":"tag-battery","11":"tag-coast","12":"tag-south","13":"tag-walls","14":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}