B&W Let's see your Black and White photos

Abandoned car at Church Gresley

TKovtyI.jpg
 
'The last train here was in 1963 my love'

Watching for the Train by Jannyfox, on Flickr

The sculpture represents Doreen, one of the children evacuated to the area on the outbreak of WWII. The railway track bed is now a Sustrans route and the old village halt has been reconstructed. The wartime reference is very significant because the railway formed part of the Taunton Stop Line - basically a fortified line across the SW peninsula from the south coast at the Axe estuary to the north coast at the Parrett estuary. If the Germans had invaded in the SW in 1940 the idea was to hold them at the stop line, while presumably all the good folk on the wrong side of it who didn't run east fast enough were sacrificed......................Fortunately it never had to be used. Neither, I believe, was it ever completed. The concrete blocks either side of the track bed in the image, and the block partly in shot behind Doreen's head, are part of the defences.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top