Concrete Echoes of Brean Down Bombing Range
Not only is beautiful Brean Down in Somerset, England, known for its captivating Bronze Age history, the promontory also played an important part in the Second World War.
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Rediscovering Hampshire’s Wartime History
Many decades after the guns fall silent and peace is negotiated, it’s intriguing to consider what echoes of war still linger amid the landscape, from ravaged combat theaters to the home front.
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Rediscovering Britain’s Forgotten Military Arrows
Across rural Britain, from southern England to the west coast of Scotland, lie myriad giant concrete arrows left behind after the dark days of World War Two drew to a close.
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Avro Lancaster DV372 “Old Fred” (Preserved Forward Fuselage)
Preserved at the Imperial War Museum Lambeth is the forward fuselage of Avro Lancaster bomber DV372/PO-F “Old Fred”, which flew 45 missions during World War Two with No. 467 Squadron RAAF.
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A “Hidden Pool” Near Creeton, Lincolnshire
This “hidden pool” near Creeton, Lincolnshire, doesn’t appear on Ordnance Survey maps. Could it be a remnant of World War Two, or something more prosaic?
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The Abandoned Target Towers of Luce Bay, Scotland
At Luce Bay, in southwest Scotland, two clusters of unusual concrete ruins echo the location’s history as a long-serving military bombing range.
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Church of St Michael & All Angels, Earl Sterndale
St Michael & All Angels Church in Earl Sterndale was the only church in Derbyshire to be hit by a German bomb during World War Two.
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“Bomb Craters” are Chilling Reminder of Greenock Blitz
These possible “bomb craters” – at an abandoned Starfish decoy site high on Whitelees Moor, above the River Clyde in Scotland – are a terrifying reminder of the 1941 Greenock Blitz.
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Ruined Fort Godwin Artillery Battery (Kilnsea, East Yorkshire)
Fort Godwin artillery battery in East Yorkshire was built in 1915 and remained operational after WW2. Its broken ruins still haunt the beach today.
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The ‘Beaulieu Letters’: Echoes of Hampshire’s Great War Past
More than 100-years-old and hidden for decades, the 15 ft tall ‘Beaulieu Letters’ allowed early pilots to identify the local aerodrome from above.
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Derelict Royal Observer Corps Orlit B Post (Guist, Norfolk)
This forgotten Orlit B post at Guist, Norfolk, was built during the Cold War as the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) sought to counter the threat of Soviet bombers.
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Visit: U-534: Preserved Wreck of a German WW2 Submarine
Salvaged in 1993, German World War Two submarine U-534 was later restored and is now displayed at part of the the U-Boat Story on the Wirral Peninsula in Northwest England.
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A Forgotten V-1 Flying Bomb Launch Site in Rhineland-Palatinate
For several months in 1944, the deadly V-1 flying bomb, aka doodlebug or buzz bomb, reigned terror down on London.
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Forgotten Wartime Tank Traps in Embleton Bay, Northumberland
Embleton Bay, in Northumberland, abounds with wartime history, from ruined pillboxes to these abandoned tank traps built to stymie a German invasion of Britain.
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Winston Churchill’s Half-Smoked Cigar Sells for $12,000
A half-finished cigar smoked by UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Le Bourget Airport in Paris in 1947 has sold for more than $12,000.
