Part 1 [ame]http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=18508[/ame]
Part 2 [ame]http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=18510[/ame]
This is the last installment and some help is required as I don't know the purpose of these buildings and can only guess.
The first one is listed on the DoB as a pillbox but as you will see it isn't
If you look at this front view you can see where it has been bricked up so to speak
I managed to reach my camera through the vent holes and take these next photo's
My theory is that it could be a beach light emplacement as there are several mentioned in the history and the DoB has one marked although it is about 2 miles away. You cannot see the beach from it as it's in the dunes but 70 years ago it is possible that you could. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong
Next we have another mystery building
Again you can see where the building has been bricked up. My first thoughts were that this was a generator house but I'm not so sure now because it looks like there has been a large embrasure on the front next to the doorway so I'm thinking it may have housed a gun of some description
View of mystery building from the beach and again more tank blocks
lying next to the building was this, could have been part of a road block?
Anti-tank ditch that ran along the back of the defenses
And finally this at Low Chibburn Preceptory. During WW2 a pillbox was built inside the ruins of the preceptoy but although is was a listed monument it was demolished in 1994 when work was carried out to make the building safe for tourists. Today they have rebuilt one of the embrasures to show what it would look like
an original 1940's photo showing the embrasures
I will post the rest of the preceptory photo's in the rural forum if any one is interested
Well thats all folks
Sorry if I have bored you to death
Thanks if you made it this far unscathed
Cheers Jon
Part 2 [ame]http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=18510[/ame]
This is the last installment and some help is required as I don't know the purpose of these buildings and can only guess.
The first one is listed on the DoB as a pillbox but as you will see it isn't
If you look at this front view you can see where it has been bricked up so to speak
I managed to reach my camera through the vent holes and take these next photo's
My theory is that it could be a beach light emplacement as there are several mentioned in the history and the DoB has one marked although it is about 2 miles away. You cannot see the beach from it as it's in the dunes but 70 years ago it is possible that you could. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong
Next we have another mystery building
Again you can see where the building has been bricked up. My first thoughts were that this was a generator house but I'm not so sure now because it looks like there has been a large embrasure on the front next to the doorway so I'm thinking it may have housed a gun of some description
View of mystery building from the beach and again more tank blocks
lying next to the building was this, could have been part of a road block?
Anti-tank ditch that ran along the back of the defenses
And finally this at Low Chibburn Preceptory. During WW2 a pillbox was built inside the ruins of the preceptoy but although is was a listed monument it was demolished in 1994 when work was carried out to make the building safe for tourists. Today they have rebuilt one of the embrasures to show what it would look like
an original 1940's photo showing the embrasures
I will post the rest of the preceptory photo's in the rural forum if any one is interested
Well thats all folks
Sorry if I have bored you to death
Thanks if you made it this far unscathed
Cheers Jon