(Still) Hunting Worcestershire’s forgotten WWII History - where did that one go?!
My very first post was on hunting the remains of World War two defences in Worcestershire. I've now started treating this sort of like a treasure hunt or geocaching, but instead of a prize or a sodden container, its 85 year old concrete with bits sticking out of it.
Google Earth is proving very useful in doing simple investigation into sites, but today I found another small puzzling question. I found a record of a anti-tank cylinder that shows it as literally in someone’s suburban garden so went to Google Maps and took a look. Most recent images show a paved driveway, looking very nice and probably recently pressure washed, but no anti-tank cylinder. Going back to the first Street View image however, shows the cylinder literally inside a flower bed in between two bushes... so the question in my mind now is, where did it end up? Its a bloody big lump of concrete, was it put in a skip? Was it broken up into rubble and removed so the homeowner could extend the drive? I can't check the HER record as obviously that’s still not working - https://yunzi.co.uk/why-do-those-responsible-for-our-heritage-seem-to-hate-it-and-us/ - and to be honest I'd have happily had got it and put it in my garden. As ever, small questions surrounding our forgotten history and quite possibly one less item linking us to our past, all for a nice driveway.