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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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.
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.
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.
In Travel & Living / By Alex Williams /
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?
At Luce Bay, in southwest Scotland, two clusters of unusual concrete ruins echo the location’s history as a long-serving military bombing range.
In Travel & Living / By Alex Williams /
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.
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.
Fort Godwin artillery battery in East Yorkshire was built in 1915 and remained operational after WW2. Its broken ruins still haunt the beach today.
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.
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.
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.
For several months in 1944, the deadly V-1 flying bomb, aka doodlebug or buzz bomb, reigned terror down on London.
Embleton Bay, in Northumberland, abounds with wartime history, from ruined pillboxes to these abandoned tank traps built to stymie a German invasion of Britain.
In History / By Alex Williams /
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.
In 2013, 617 Squadron Tornado GR4 ZA412 sported a special tail fin to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Operation Chastise, the famous Dam Busters raid. That tail fin is now displayed at RAF Scampton.
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