Kurrajong Ridge Bunker, Blue Mountains, New South Wales during WW2

KURRAJONG RIDGE BUNKER
BLUE MOUNTAINS, NSW
DURING WW2

visits since 21 December 2002

Alastair Bowie told me about some bunkers he found on Kurrajong Ridge in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales about 50 to 100 metres from the Miles Communication site overlooking the Richmond Airfield. There is a house on the opposite side of the road about 100 metres away. The bunkers are accessed via a dirt road that runs down the top of the Kurrajong ridge. The ridge has three large communication towers on it. Kurrajong Heights Ridge is a very dominant feature looking over the Windsor area in Sydney's west and directly above and to the west of the Richmond Air Force base.

I have previously found information that there was an Operations Building and Remote Receiving Building somewhere at Richmond during WW2. Could this "bunker" be the site of the Remote Receiving Building perhaps?

Alastair told me of two rooms and a concrete pit with an inbuilt ladder assembly. The pit had been filled in somewhat so its actual depth couldn't be ascertained. Alastair guessed that it was at least 3m deep, 1.5m wide and 2.5m long. There was also a concrete slab which seemed to be a pedestal mount 2 x 2 m.

The two rooms were about 3 x 4 metres and one was like a garage. with steel access doors. The power outlet seemed similar to US ones he had seen at Balcombe and Exmouth but was not certain.