Bel Royal Tower
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Bel Royal Tower
The tower in 1939, a few years before it was demolished
Also known as St Aubin No 2, Bel Royal Tower was built before 1787 and demolished by the occupying German forces on 7 January 1943 to make way for a concrete bunker. By then the sea had eroded much of the sandy bank which stood between the tower and the high water mark when it was built
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Bel Royal Tower stood behind the railway station -
This picture is described as 'Millbrook 1881' but there was no tower at Millbrook, which is between First Tower and Bel Royal. This is actually Bel Royal Tower, with the former Bel Royal Windmill and steam plant alongside -
Bel Royal Tower just before the Germans blew it up -
Bel Royal Station was built on the seaward side of the tower, but the concrete bunker which replaced it in 1943 was built into the sea wall -
Bel Royal Tower (picture Evening Post, 1938)
A wartime view through a car windscreen shortly before the tower was demolished
