This photograph is taken from the eastern side of the stream. 98% of the structure is made from non combustable materials (brick, corrugated steel panels and steel rafters).
Viewed from this vantage point, the right-hand end of the building faces north. The yellow arrow points to a pair of Crittle window frames.
Next to a similar pair of window frames on the west facing wall is a gap that was once an entrance. Today the only remaining features of the entrance are the original hinges one of which is shown below.
The picture to the right shows the south western corner of the indoor firing range. Interestingly, the galvanised, sheet steel wall panels are painted cream; the same colour as the one room building we described previously (see insert below).
The roof is supported by steel rafters that rest on brick columns. Between each pair of columns is a timber framework to which are nailed galvanised, sheet steel panels. The north facing wall is of brick, clad on the exterior with galvanised sheet steel as shown in the insert below.
Cemented on the inside of the brick wall are steel, spiked hooks, which kept in place sand bags to prevent bullets ricocheting. During WWII the whole interior surface of the brick wall would have been lined with sand bags, remains of which are shown in the small picture below.
At floor level in front of the brick wall are the remains of a one metre high sand berm on which the first line of sand bags rested.
Six meters on the outside of this wall stands the rifle range the back of which can be seen in the photograph to the right.
The north facing wall of the revolver firing range is constructed in a style that follows the same specifications as that for the side walls.
Fitted into the galvanised, sheet steel roof are 8 skylights (arranged in two groups of 4) that provided additional natural light during daylight hours. One group of skylights is shown in the the picture to the right.
Although at first glance the floor appears unmade, some 45% of its northern end is concreted over. The red arrow in this photograph points to the end of the concrete floor, a small portion of which has been exposed.
On the concrete floor stood a coal burning stove with a flue that escaped through a hole in the roof shown in the photograph to the right.
Today the revolver firing range looks a very bleak, forlorn place. Other than being used as a cattle shed immediately after WWII, it has stood empty for over 60 years.
This photograph is taken from the eastern side of the stream. 98% of the structure is made from non combustable materials (brick, corrugated steel panels and steel rafters).
Next to a similar pair of window frames on the west facing wall is a gap that was once an entrance. Today the only remaining features of the entrance are the original hinges one of which is shown below.
The picture to the right shows the south western corner of the indoor firing range. Interestingly, the galvanised, sheet steel wall panels are painted cream; the same colour as the one room building we described previously (see insert below).
The roof is supported by steel rafters that rest on brick columns. Between each pair of columns is a timber framework to which are nailed galvanised, sheet steel panels. The north facing wall is of brick, clad on the exterior with galvanised sheet steel as shown in the insert below.
Cemented on the inside of the brick wall are steel, spiked hooks, which kept in place sand bags to prevent bullets ricocheting. During WWII the whole interior surface of the brick wall would have been lined with sand bags, remains of which are shown in the small picture below.
At floor level in front of the brick wall are the remains of a one metre high sand berm on which the first line of sand bags rested.
Six meters on the outside of this wall stands the rifle range the back of which can be seen in the photograph to the right.
The north facing wall of the revolver firing range is constructed in a style that follows the same specifications as that for the side walls.
Fitted into the galvanised, sheet steel roof are 8 skylights (arranged in two groups of 4) that provided additional natural light during daylight hours. One group of skylights is shown in the the picture to the right.
Although at first glance the floor appears unmade, some 45% of its northern end is concreted over. The red arrow in this photograph points to the end of the concrete floor, a small portion of which has been exposed.
On the concrete floor stood a coal burning stove with a flue that escaped through a hole in the roof shown in the photograph to the right.
Today the revolver firing range looks a very bleak, forlorn place. Other than being used as a cattle shed immediately after WWII, it has stood empty for over 60 years.