wall
Several Anti- invasion defences were constructed around Seaton Delaval Hall, during WW2, such was the fear of invasion from the North Sea after the fall of Norway. These defensive measures around Seaton Delaval Hall included a low-level defensive stone wall, with rifle loops located east of Deer park. ‘L’ shaped […]
Loopholed wall protecting Northern approach to Alnwick. Pictures taken in 2006.
These views of the Loopholed wall at Alnwick Cemetery are from 2005 and predate the building of the Sainsburys supermarket and other buildings which now obscure the view of the wall. The pictures below were taken from inside the cemetery in 2006.
The Westwall was a series of fortifications constructed between 1938 and 1940 along the western frontier of Germany between the Netherlands and Switzerland. In WWII the Allies called it the Siegfried Line. After Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940, the line was no longer garrisoned and was neither maintained nor […]
Hankley Common “Atlantic Wall” Tilford SU884413 Visiting Hankley Common in Surrey I decided to capture some of the interesting parts of the “Atlantic wall” that survive today scattered around the woodland in this pleasant part of Surrey. The ruins can be found after a short walk in a straight line […]