09 May 2pm-5pm | RESISTANCE NEST MILLBROOK ANTI-TANK GUN CASEMATE (next to the Old Station Cafe on Victoria Avenue)
Resistance Nest Millbrook will be open for public viewing, boasting many original features and restored to what it would have looked like when operational.
The open day will also include interactive displays of genuine wartime artefacts, samples of rationed foods and Force 135 reenactors. Volunteer guides will be on hand to provide information and real accounts from soldiers who were stationed there.
This bunker is located on St. Aubin’s Bay promenade opposite La Motte Ford next to the ‘Old Station Café and is an example of a flanking anti-tank gun casemate mounting an ex-Czech 4.7cm PakK 36 (t) anti-tank gun with a coaxial MG 37 (t) machine gun which was built into a Victorian slipway to both block access off the beach to an attacker and camouflage the bunker behind a stout granite sea wall. The bunker is also unusual for mounting a small observation bell with a replica now replacing the top of the original removed for scrap in c1948.
Entry for adults is £6, children under 16 and CIOS members go free.
For a full list of the CIOS Bunker openings click here.
