Monument record FEX 245 - World War II barrage balloon site located on Landguard Common.

A World War II barrage balloon site is visible as a structure on aerial photographs taken in 1944, located at TM 28653219 to the north-east of the fort on Landguard Point, Felixstowe. The structure consists of a hexagonal concrete platform, 12m in diameter, with a probable central tethering point, surrounded by an inner and outer ring of small concrete tethering points, measuring roughly 23m and 56m in diameter respectively. A balloon is also visible floating above the site on photographs taken in April 1944. The platform is still visible during the 1960s. (S1) (S2) (S3) This site is part of the extensive balloon barrage which crossed Harwich Haven during the Second World War. A number of the balloons were tethered to vessels in the channel itself and others were located on land. See FEX 073, 165, 203, 204, 206, 207 and SLY 076, 082, 092 for other sites in the barrage. (S4)