Hi
I've never ever posted a blog before, so bear with me, please.
At the bottom of my garden is a brick structure. Part of my garden was handed over during the war and was a field in which part of the US 101st ariborne were camped. My house we believe (but have no proof) was officers' quarters. The house we know was built in 1932.
This brick structure is 6 ft long, 2 ft wide and about 18 inches (6 courses of brick) high. It is capped with 4 very heavy 2ft by 1.5 ft slabs. It appears to have been built on a cast concrete base, the base has no joints and, sadly, no inscribed dates. Along along one side, call it the front, at ground level, are 4 more 2ft * 1.5 ft slabs giving firm ground to stand on.
We have no idea what this was used for or how old it is. There is nothing on it or in it to give us a clue. It has been suggested by a couple of people that it was a field kitchen. Anyone out there know whether it might be?
About 15 ft away from this structure, buried in the ground, is a galvanised steel tank. It is about 2ft long by 1.5 ft wide and about 2 ft deep, so about 35/40 gallons worth of storage of some liquid. Water? Fuel? During WWII my house had no mains water supply, only a well at the back of the house some 200 ft away from this tank. Is the tank and the brick structure somehow part of the same funtion? There is no inlet or outlet pipe to the tank and it does not look like there ever was. There is what appears to me to be an overflow pipe at the very top of the tank but it only passes through the tank wall and then stops. The tank is surrounded by about 2 inch width of gravel but that suggests to me, dig a hole bigger than the tank, drop the tank in and then backfill around it with the gravel
They say a picture speaks a thousand words but I am not good at uploading pictures but if anyone out there is interested I can give it a go because I am very curious to learn what these two things might have been used for.
Hoping someone might be interested
