Newton Noyes
The Royal Navy established a depot here in the 1930s for the manufacture and storage of mines.
The mines were stored in large underground magazines and moved around by the depot’s own railway system. This rail system combined standard and narrow gauge and extended onto a jetty where the mines would be loaded onto ships. Housing for the naval officers was located near the former mansion of Castle Hall. The remains of two WW2 mine-watching posts can be found between The Horseshoe and the Gulf refinery jetty.
July 1946 - RNMD Newton Noyes
