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    Here's one of the lads shifting a big table so they can set up a skittle alley in the nave:

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    and one taken by a proper photographer:

    Last edited by Brotherton Lad; 06-04-2012 at 18:38.
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    It was like that when I got here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brotherton Lad View Post
    Fancy dress runners up ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BarkingSpider View Post
    Type 24 pillboxes, whereabouts are these then?
    (yeah, I know, I'm a fucking spotter)
    What's one of these then?




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    Quote Originally Posted by Oddbod View Post
    What's one of these then?
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    That's a Mark Seven Mattheson Pill Box.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BarkingSpider View Post
    Complete with bullet holes from German troops taking pot shots at it during WW2.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oddbod View Post
    What's one of these then?




    Looks to me like a coastguard lookout building. But to be honest that's my best guess. The walls don't seem to be thick enough for a fortified structure and are certainly not bulletproof.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BarkingSpider View Post
    Looks to me like a coastguard lookout building. But to be honest that's my best guess. The walls don't seem to be thick enough for a fortified structure and are certainly not bulletproof.
    Probably fobbed off to the Admiralty in some 1938 version of PFI.
    It was like that when I got here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oddbod View Post
    What's one of these then?
    Doesn't look like any round my way. It's not full of used johnnies, empty beer cans & torn up grumble mags.
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    Captain Noel Chavasse VC and Bar. Brandhoek New Military Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium.



    Private Thomas Hannah. Rifle House Cemetery, Ploegsteert Wood, Belgium. It took me a few seconds to realise what was different about this one. No religious symbol.



    Blank except for a cross. Ypres Town Cemetery Extension, Belgium.
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