Some shots of relics from ww2 coastal defences
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21243179
“The remains of a network of pillboxes and gun emplacements can be found at various coastal locations around the country and a short trip across the English Channel will ensure you come face to face with the Nazi Atlantic Wall that was there to stop the Allied forces returning to mainland Europe, something it failed to achieve.”
By: Lincoln 7 - 5th February 2013 at 22:03
Yep, Old Father Time has made sure climbing dizzy heights is out, sold my last boat 3 yrs ago, otherwise, who knows 😉
Thanks for the Link, very absorbing, just shows what a great Nation we USED to be, we can hardly lay claim to anything good these days.
Jim.
Lincoln .7
By: paul178 - 5th February 2013 at 21:53
Got a boat Jim you can still get out to them. I did 30 years ago but would not recomend climbing them at our time of life!!!!!!!
Here you go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts
By: Lincoln 7 - 5th February 2013 at 21:49
Here ya go:
Rick.
Just about the same as I described, in Norfolk.
Thanks for the Link.
Jim.
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By: Lincoln 7 - 5th February 2013 at 21:46
Which side of the Island Paul, and how far, roughly out to Sea were they?.
Jim.
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By: paul178 - 5th February 2013 at 21:37
Spent a fortnight in jersey in 1967 enjoyed visiting all the relics the nazis left behind.The German Underground Hospital was still being excavated at the time. Built by slave labour of the Todt Organisation which rather took the shine off the place.
Anyway no one has yet mentioned the Maunsell forts
Redsands
Knock John
By: ZRX61 - 5th February 2013 at 21:03
Here ya go:
By: Lincoln 7 - 5th February 2013 at 19:30
There are one or two quote a way from the cliffs at Walton in Essex, all the way out by the low tide mark.
Rick, I am not surprised at what you say, it’s truly amazing just how much of our Coastline is being eroded by Mother Nature.
I also fished at Spurn Point, the entrance to the Humber, we fished near where the Humber Pilot boats were moored, and to get there we had to drive along a concrete road, this road has suffered the ravages of the tides, but at the rate of erosion, perhaps the only way to get to that spot now, may be by a 4×4 only.
ie, offroad.
Jim.
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By: Lincoln 7 - 5th February 2013 at 19:21
Hi John. Yes, I have been to St Helier, Jersey, exactly 51 yrs ago, this July, for the 2nd time 😮
I was with a girlfriend at the time, and sightseeing was the last thing on my mind:( Nudge, nudge, wink, wink,!! )
However, I did go into the Hospital that the Germans took over, and which was still, then preserved as they had left it, and found it most illuminating, (Well, it was underground :D)
Seriously though, knowing what I do now, I wished I was as interested in History then, as I am now, and would have explored more.
As for the girlfriend, well, she is part of History.
Jim.
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By: ZRX61 - 5th February 2013 at 18:49
Memory slightly fails me here, but I used to do a lot of beach, Sea Angling, and during the 80s, it was either at Cley or Weybourn area, where on the top of a very high bank, was a Pill Box, over the following years the banking was washed away, and the box ended up on the beach,
There are one or two quote a way from the cliffs at Walton in Essex, all the way out by the low tide mark.
By: John Green - 5th February 2013 at 17:24
Jim,
I don’t if you’ve ever had a wander around the Channel Islands? There’s a stack of WW2 beach and clifftop relics. Very, very interesting and atmospheric !
By: RAFRochford - 5th February 2013 at 16:11
Apart from those bits remaining on the Normandy side of the English Channel, this Langstone relic is, I believe, the last major portion existing of that very vital component of the D-Day landings.
Well, we do have a very large chunk of Phoenix caisson sitting in the Thames off Southend on Sea.
http://apps.southend.gov.uk/Gallery/mulberryharbour.html
Always used to fascinate me as a kid, but never had the nerve to walk out there at low tide, as it is very easy to get caught out if you try!
There’s also a couple of beauties sitting in Portland…surely they must be the best preserved examples?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/177268191/
Regards;
Steve
By: Lincoln 7 - 5th February 2013 at 15:33
John, Perchance he has, but has not mentioned it. I look forward to looking/reading his book as and when he gets it published.
Quite a few yrs ago, I visited France, and went to see the site where the Battle Of Britain was filmed, I saw a number of their massive gun emplacements that had been built, I don’t know if they are still there, but they were very impresivly built.
Jim.
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By: John Green - 5th February 2013 at 12:18
I hope he’s included the chunk of Mulberry Harbour that has sat and is still sitting in the middle of Langstone Harbour near Portsmouth.
Apart from those bits remaining on the Normandy side of the English Channel, this Langstone relic is, I believe, the last major portion existing of that very vital component of the D-Day landings; a temporary harbour, without which the build-up of vital supplies so necessary for the advance from the beachead would have been next to impossible.
This idea of the temporary harbour was invented, developed and produced by the British at huge cost in labour and materials.
In those days, we were a different people.
By: Lincoln 7 - 4th February 2013 at 17:49
Full marks to this man for his dedication for the work he is doing to preserve History on both sides of the Chanel, and bearing just about all the costs himself.
Memory slightly fails me here, but I used to do a lot of beach, Sea Angling, and during the 80s, it was either at Cley or Weybourn area, where on the top of a very high bank, was a Pill Box, over the following years the banking was washed away, and the box ended up on the beach, even though made for the ravages of War, Mother Nature soon broke much of it up,
There may well still be the odd traces of it left on the beach?.
Jim.
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