Pennar
At Bethany is a single-storey, L-shaped ARP civil defence centre.
It is brick built with a flat, reinforced concrete roof and small, high windows. It is now doing duty as a Scout hut.
The shelter at Pennar, now doing duty as a Scout Hut.
Pennar Barracks (SM 946029):
Royal Engineers Barracks were built here in 1903 in connection with a submarine mining establishment at Pennar Point which had been in existence since about 1875.
The barracks complex comprised workshops, offices, mine stores, quays, married quarters, barracks, a raised water tank, ablutions blocks and various ancillary buildings.
Pennar Barracks, pictured in about 1910
No trace remains of Pennar Barracks. Today the site accommodates a large housing development and only a small quay and a row of military fence posts remain to remind of its military and naval past. During WWII it was again used as a barracks and also housed RN coastal forces.
