On 12/05/2012 9:48 AM, Joan Edwards wrote: Thanks - I had forgotten abou those anti-aircraft guns, but I certainly remember the trench trenches rather like single land swimming pools in the wet! Thank you Joan. Are you related to EDWARDS 1940s fam at 24 Midson Rd Eastwood. I'd like to contact KATHERINE ROSE EDWARDS bn May 1932. There was just one ack ack gun, beside the up relief railway line. In the yard of the Boy Scouts hall. Inconspicuous, below the horizon. The gun crew mainly female. The rail junction there would allow heavy goods trains from the north to accumulate then rush to Sydney Markets and Dairy warehouses. Suitable target for enemy attack. The huge Ryde MWSDB pumping station on Victoria Rd was also of strategic importance. A dummy 'replica' was built in 1940s beside Meadowbank station. The humorous comment at the time was that Japanese eyesight and intellect would surely attract bombers to Meadowbank replica thus assuring survival of the Ryde pumping site. Cheers, ALISTAIR M. CAMERON A.A.G.R.A. PO Box 215 BUNDANOON NSW 2578 AUSTRALIA Visit Bundanoon Village Website... http://www.bundanoon.nsw.au/ Many a beautiful hypothesis is destroyed by an ugly truth (Galileo) www.bundyontap.com.au