well today wasn't the best of weather to go out and about but I thought sod it and went anyway. At one point, after being soaked through with torrential rain, shot blasted with hailstones the size of small marbles and blown about with gale force winds, I even started to question my sanity. I ended up in Northumberland at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea to have a look at the WW2 remains and I wasn't disappointed. The Northumbrian coastline was heavily defended during WW2 and the following cover 3 bays of the coast line from Lynemouth to the river Wansbeck.
I'll start with the furthest South which comprises a vickers machine gun emplacement and a sandbag pillbox
The machine gun position
Doorway
I couldn't get inside because it was bricked up to the size of an embrasure
camera through the door opening shot
Through the embrasure
The gun shelf with wood still in place
The sandbag pillbox (the DoB has this marked up as an infantry post)
Embrasure
Doorway
internals
Moving on we come to a Vickers machine gun emplacement and a gun emplacement
(both of which are bricked up but I knew that before I went there)
The Vickers emplacement
the back filled doorway
There were broken bits of pillbox all over
The gun emplacement
how long before the sea claims another victim
Anti tank blocks stretched along the beach
with some oddities (any ideas?)
Right that's enough for now I will post the rest shortly
Thanks for looking
Jon
I'll start with the furthest South which comprises a vickers machine gun emplacement and a sandbag pillbox
The machine gun position
Doorway
I couldn't get inside because it was bricked up to the size of an embrasure
camera through the door opening shot
Through the embrasure
The gun shelf with wood still in place
The sandbag pillbox (the DoB has this marked up as an infantry post)
Embrasure
Doorway
internals
Moving on we come to a Vickers machine gun emplacement and a gun emplacement
(both of which are bricked up but I knew that before I went there)
The Vickers emplacement
the back filled doorway
There were broken bits of pillbox all over
The gun emplacement
how long before the sea claims another victim
Anti tank blocks stretched along the beach
with some oddities (any ideas?)
Right that's enough for now I will post the rest shortly
Thanks for looking
Jon