Coast

[Smithy]

What a fantastic programme this is. I don't know if anyone else has seen it but the last few weeks have had quite a military link to them.

First off, I didn't realise that just off the Kent coast there were five/six steel structures which used to have anti-aircraft guns on them.

Then the next episode saw them cross over the channel to Normandy where Dick Strawbridge was in a halftrack on the beaches. :yay::-D

[Willyslancs]

yes it is a good series , seen it before..........

[Smithy]

Is it a repeat then? As I thought the ones where they went to France were new?

It was in Ireland tonight but only caught the last 20 minutes of it.

[sirhc]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00lv6xv/Coast_Series_4_France_Cap_GrisNez_to_Mont_SaintMichel/

[Willyslancs]

seen one series of it before , not sure about this one

[Nick Johns]

What a fantastic programme this is. I don't know if anyone else has seen it but the last few weeks have had quite a military link to them.

First off, I didn't realise that just off the Kent coast there were five/six steel structures which used to have anti-aircraft guns on them.

::-D

 

Here's more...The Redsand Fort project, who are restoring the forts

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/maxdreamstate

Edited August 4, 2009 by Nick Johns

[Smithy]

Cheers Sirhc and Nick. Isn't it great how these massive structures are still standing and actually move with the sea.

[sean101ryan]

Couple of pics taken from the Dart Line ferry last time we went to Belgium.

[Enigma]

Looks like War of the Worlds...

 

RUN!

[john fox]

anyone see the episode tonight?

very smart Bedford QL shown in the Faroe Isles, allegedly one of 300 MV's left behind when we withdrew after the war

Edited August 19, 2009 by john fox

[jerry.ice]

Yes a very nice looking Bedford. Didn't say how many were still there though and that airstrip looked a bit scary:shocked:, but what an amazing looking place.

 

Jerry

[CommanderChuff]

In the Normandy coast episode Dick mentioned that the issue on that beach was the presence of peat just below the sandy top layer. We probably all know about the problem of blue clay which was overcome by using Bobbin AVRE's, rolling out a canvas carpet, but I have not seen any reference to peat patches in the books which I have read. In those books I have come across the Roly Poly AVRE which appears to have used small diameter trees linked with wire to form a log carpet.

 

Would this be used to provide the runway over the peat?

[Smithy]

In the Normandy coast episode Dick mentioned that the issue on that beach was the presence of peat just below the sandy top layer. We probably all know about the problem of blue clay which was overcome by using Bobbin AVRE's, rolling out a canvas carpet, but I have not seen any reference to peat patches in the books which I have read. In those books I have come across the Roly Poly AVRE which appears to have used small diameter trees linked with wire to form a log carpet.

 

Would this be used to provide the runway over the peat?

 

I was thinking the same. It certainly was interesting to see how by going down less then a foot Peat suddenly appeared as the foundation of the beach!!!