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    Geoff,
    Nice images there mate.
    Yes I think it was from a nostalgia reason they were left, I think they have in part been left up because of the sheer effort of anything manufactured these days to crush them up wouldn't cope with the amount of 1:1 mixed concrete of WW2, which was how they built them to deflect shell direct hits.
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