Dunkirk

[bigduke6]

Don't know if these will be of interest, but I've ran past these Bunkers, Machinegun positions a good few times, I never run with a camera or phone but made an effort last night and covered 15k although I did have to stop to take the picks it was more to do with getting the sand out of the trainers.

The one that strikes me most is the one that has either been semi demolished or just built on, its on the beech front, between post war buildings.

The other is on the old part of the port, the two machine gun turrets are facing the inner of the breakwater and is built on the old quay (its were they evacuated) obvious this wasn't there then but believe there was kind of forte (has the Dunkirk Spirit on top) this also shown in the old Black and white picture.

A testament to the steel they used back then as its still got the access bars at the side leading up to the top and still hold my weight, a was tempted to jump down the hatch and have a look around but had second thoughts as I only had the phone torch.

Next to concrete bunker, are two horse shoe shape brick built positions which I guess was a temporary build before or while the concrete one was being built.

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