My local Park

It must be really rough where you live. We don't have heavy artillery emplacements in our local parks round here.

 

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Thanks for sharing woo..

 

Numble pie has been consumed..

 

Brilliant photos Woo,you are so lucky to have such wide range of scenery where you live.:gnthb: It is also nice to see the palm trees,which obviously love the warmth of the climate where you live

It is nice to see the guns in place as a reminder of times of war that has gone before and the defences of this beautiful country of ours.

Mr Kandy and myself always take photos when we come across the artillary.Down at Slapton Sands there are the remains of a tank that has been brought up from the bottom of the bay and has been cleaned up and preserved so that visitors can look round it and educate themselves. We often find the pill boxes when we are out and about and it never fails to amaze us some of the locations that they can be found in especially inland.:D

Many thanks for sharing part of your life with us all,it is always an education:thmb:

 

Sorry..:ntwrth:.begs saying.... "You would not want to throw that anywhere?"

 

Woo is that one of those mine thingys that is in the above photo? Being of the younger generation I am not up on a lot of items of war.I believe these ones are used by charity organisations to raise money because there is often a slot in them.We saw one when we were away at Christmas and that one had small spikes sticking out of the top of it.I expect there are different types of them that were used.

When we went across to the Isle Of White this year we went round The Needles Old Battery and that was very interesting going down the tunnels that was built in the area unbeknown to the residents of the island

 

A nice mix of pix Woo.:gnthb:

 

I was jesting, but I think you realise that

 

clueless said.

we could do with them in our park:lollol:
nice pics Woo.

 

They didn't think anyone would bother to invade the north east ,we just had rubber guns under nets on our beaches. joyce

 

They had some pretty serious hardware further up the coast apparently, protecting British Steal on Teesside, and the ship building at on Wearside.

Incidentally, you've just reminded me of one of my favourite stories that a bloke told my dad (who then told me). This man was a child during the war, and was walking his dog in Saltburn woods. He heard a squadron of aircraft overheard but as there was nothing in Saltburn that was of strategic value, he wasn't alarmed. Then the bombs rained down and he had to run for his life. In trying to understand the reasoning for bombing an expanse of woodland with no strategic importance, the theory at the time was that the German's were off course and thought they were attacking Sunderland. However years after I was told this story I saw a documentary that said that Winston Churchill had spent time in seemingly insignificant places during the war, and one such place was Rushpool Hall hotel, which is right in the middle of Saltburn woods.