Return to the WW2 XT Class Submarine wrecks

 

Back out on the Fatbikes and parked up at Dirleton we cycled along to Gullane zig zag out a brutal strong westerly wind to Gullane, I have been meaning to investigate this thick wire rope that has appeared in the dunes at Archerfied...

This is definitely off a military vehicle and there was tanks along with other vehicles here in WW2 when the Estate was requisitioned by the War Office for Army training...

Across up on Gullane we cycle through the Reserve and soaked up the splendid views...

Before winching out across the sands into the brutal headwind...

The subs are disappearing every year as they are slowly corroding away and dissolving with the salt water and winter storms, but always good to go see them again...

Another big sky day in the Shire!

With loads of film and pics done we enjoyed an easy tail wind assisted cruise back to Archerfield, a great day out on the Fatbikes...

Wee film, music by C.H.R.I.S.T.    CHRIS T

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Revisit to the WW2 POW Camp 16 Coolers!

 

With an open day on at Gosford House detoured out via the former WW2 Prisoner of War camp 16 and stopped outside for a pic of the Camp Coolers. These sadly have been ruined by vandals smashing the small windows allowing rain water to dissolve the whitewash that used to be covered in pictures and writing by former POW's who were locked up for being naughty...

These pics are from a previous blog post years ago...

0ver 3000 Axis prisoners were held here after capture as the Allies moved across Europe after the June 1944 invasion and the camp was soon full od soldiers who for many stayed here in the UK and made a new life, some had nothing to return home to or feared returning to their East German homes now under Soviet occupation...

Wee film I made using old footage from a previous film...

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