The title of this blog comes from a Gaelic expression -"putting on the poor mouth"-which means to exaggerate the direness of one's situation in order to gain time or favour from creditors.
24 June 2010
Tett Turret
Not quite the last of these one man defence turrets created as part of the desperate measures to repel a German invasion in WWII but one of only nine still in existence. Two of them can be found together by a path in Hornchurch Country Park. The Park is the site of RAF Hornchurch a major Battle of Britain fighter station
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Very somber. Not much of a protection against an invasion.
It reminds me of people building underground shelters, in Houston Texas, during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 60s. I was also teaching my young sons to go under the table if they would see that strangely coloured hissing cloud in the sky. If it had happened, I wouldn't be here to tell you, Jams.
If England had been invaded, maybe you wouldn't have such a photo for your blog!
Very interesting, thank you :-)
War is fascinating, isn't it? Especially six decades after ...
thats the sort of thing i would have loved playing in as a kid
I wonder how many there were originally?
And I wonder how many are left in Albania -- when I visited there 10 years ago they dotted every hillside.
If Operation Sealion had gone ahead, our ground forces were in a poor condition to face the German Army. Straight after Dunkirk the only combat ready formation in England was a Canadian division.
THe figthing would have been desperate. I have no dougt that Churchill would have authorised use of anything in the armoury to stop the Germans, including gas
It is Sean. I still have a direct line to the war in the sahpe of my father
I never saw the Tett turrets as a child but the old RAF station was a great place to play when a child. It's now mainly a housing estate, the part I played on
I wonder Steve. I can imagine that many of the defences have gone but like here a lot still survives
I am lowering the tone markedly!
Looks like a giant's toilet.
Haha Calum!
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