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21 Feb 2018 19:57 - 21 Feb 2018 20:05 #1
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I took these today at 9am just a few yards from the train station. I thought it had that WW2 look about it...
The Dead got memorials, The living got time.
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I took these today at 9am just a few yards from the train station. I thought it had that WW2 look about it...
The Dead got memorials, The living got time.
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21 Feb 2018 20:58 #2
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No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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I would think it would be a Home Guard or ARP shelter. I have no idea if it was a standard design, if it was one of these. Or a store of some sort.
However it is not likely to be an air raid shelter, unless it is just an entrance.
However it is not likely to be an air raid shelter, unless it is just an entrance.
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21 Feb 2018 21:04 #3
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If it is a standalone building which is no longer in use, as opposed to an entrance to something, it seems odd to go to the trouble of boarding it up as it does not look like it would take many blows from a sledge hammer to demolish it completely....
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21 Feb 2018 22:44 #4
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Ice store? Coal House? Salt house? Why WWII?
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22 Feb 2018 07:19 #5
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It is likely much older. Looks similar to the black powder stores set-up alongside the rail routes as they were being built. Could also be a grit store.
Check the history of that road; it is likely been built on a disused railway trace.
Check the history of that road; it is likely been built on a disused railway trace.
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22 Feb 2018 08:53 #6
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I had a look at the large scale maps on the planning site, they do not show it but one had something written near there though not possible to read it and it could just be something on the road,
Probably best thing is to ask locally, see if there is a local history group or local history column in local newspaper.
Probably best thing is to ask locally, see if there is a local history group or local history column in local newspaper.
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22 Feb 2018 10:49 #7
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Exactamundo - more than likely boarded up to prevent someone being injured by the roof/walls caving in as they played/sheltered/smoked a joint in there...
Under my gruff exterior lies an even gruffer interior...
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it seems odd to go to the trouble of boarding it up as it does not look like it would take many blows from a sledge hammer to demolish it completely....
Exactamundo - more than likely boarded up to prevent someone being injured by the roof/walls caving in as they played/sheltered/smoked a joint in there...
Under my gruff exterior lies an even gruffer interior...
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22 Feb 2018 13:31 #8
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A well maybe? I seem to recall something similar on the Witham ?
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22 Feb 2018 13:34 #9
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Long ago and far away
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Looking at the brick bond it the bricks appear just to ber laid on top of each other not bonded giving a wall just the thickness of the bricks width the arch is very shallow which suggests that it was not built for a long term use.i assume the two sections of rail line embedded in front of it are to protect it from passing traffic. the slope of the road might just suggest that it is an early example of a gritting container.
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22 Feb 2018 19:09 #10
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Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
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It's not on the 25inch old OS maps.
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