Well it rained in Suffolk all day on Sunday! This resulted in time to work on the next defence scheme - 9th Kings should be on the website in the next few days. Despite a very very windy and sometimes wet Monday I was still not going to brave the bank holiday traffic so took the opportunity to get some photos of local WW2 remains I have recorded (but not up till now photographed). These included the Gorse Hill (Aldeburgh) ROC post - images attached. I wont bore you with the rest - basically they are piles of destroyed concrete (which probably explains why I have not got round to photographing them until now!).
As the title suggests, just a lazy post today, a few pics of CRE Colchester design pillboxes in the Sudbury area to round of the thread on this May visit. Also one pic of concrete road block cylinders now being used as part of river bank defences. This is the first time I have come across this type of road block in Suffolk although I suspect it was probably used quite widely on this Stop Line, perhaps I will come across more examples / references in time. These pictures do show a timeless landscape - traditional floodplain meadows still used for grazing, with the Second World War clearly marking its presence. Lets just hope both the pillboxes and grazing meadows will be preserved.
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