The Wash

Made a start on the Wash defences at the north end.First the four type 26's on the spit of land at the River Witham mouth

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Inland slightly built on a bank are two Lics 3 bays both facing the river now in machete country.
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And further south facing the sea e32482

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Excellent stuff rich.this looks familiar thank you.

Bloody long walks around there

RichCooper said:

Bloody long walks around there

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At least it will keep you fit

Excellent shots. There were several of these littering the east coast near Bridlington where I spent a lot of my childhood holidays. A lot of them have been washed in to the sea by coastal erosion now, but many still litter the farmers fields. I am presuming that they were all manned 24 hours a day and acted as machine gun nests in case of coastal invasion?
If anyone has any info on their roll in the war I would be very interested : )

Excellent work yet again rich and thats my fix of concretey porn for another few weeks sorted

Great set of images,thanks for sharing.

Whiteknight841 said:

Excellent shots. There were several of these littering the east coast near Bridlington where I spent a lot of my childhood holidays. A lot of them have been washed in to the sea by coastal erosion now, but many still litter the farmers fields. I am presuming that they were all manned 24 hours a day and acted as machine gun nests in case of coastal invasion?
If anyone has any info on their roll in the war I would be very interested : )

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No, they were very rarely manned, if at all. Although local home guard units would have run drills etc.

Nice aS EVER Rich that 3 bay has a hell of a tide mark in it must flood badly when it rains

Whiteknight841 said:

Excellent shots. There were several of these littering the east coast near Bridlington where I spent a lot of my childhood holidays. A lot of them have been washed in to the sea by coastal erosion now, but many still litter the farmers fields. I am presuming that they were all manned 24 hours a day and acted as machine gun nests in case of coastal invasion?
If anyone has any info on their roll in the war I would be very interested : )

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You won't go far wrong with this Wiki article about the defences,it seems to be fairly accurate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_hardened_field_defences_of_World_War_II

There's also this site

http://www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk/

Whiteknight841 said:

Excellent shots. There were several of these littering the east coast near Bridlington where I spent a lot of my childhood holidays. A lot of them have been washed in to the sea by coastal erosion now, but many still litter the farmers fields. I am presuming that they were all manned 24 hours a day and acted as machine gun nests in case of coastal invasion?
If anyone has any info on their roll in the war I would be very interested : )

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All the Brid stuff and the Yorks coast can be found here

https://www.flickr.com/photos/76425581@N02/collections/

Thanks for the info guys, and keep up the good work Rich!

Nice work there Rich been a while since I was out looking for them