NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted December 9, 2016 Report Share Posted December 9, 2016 I for one have very serious doubts about the supposed invasion. Good landing beach yes, but its in the middle of nowhere, with wide open skies hence you would need complete air superiority, and if you want to get to London the Germans intended target you would have to go through Colchester. Colchester has been a garrison town since the romans were around, there was at the outbreak of war a complete division centred there. As an extra precaution the Colchester 'stop line' consisted of 120 pill boxes and defensive positions manned by 2000 home guard purely to close the road to London. Militarily speaking if you knew you were going to be invaded that exactly the place you would want it to happen. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 9, 2016 Report Share Posted December 9, 2016 Know what you mean NBL..but my old man had a best mate in the Red Cross..and said they was a firefight for at least 8 or 9 hours. Who knows?...let's not spoil it for Carni.LOL! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted December 9, 2016 Report Share Posted December 9, 2016 Not saying there wasn't some Germans washed up and there may well have been a fire fight but that's a lot different to an invasion. There were Germans wash up at other places and quite a few bodies too I supposed its to be expected with the amount of activity in the Channel back then. Their E boats were very active as witnessed later in the war down on Slapton Sands where several US vessels were sank at night whilst practicing for the D Day invasion. I think we can discount the 'sea on fire' rumour as this happened just down the coast at Orford in WW1 but if I remember correctly this to was 'allowed' to raise it's head again the thinking being if the Germans want to believe then all well and good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted December 9, 2016 Report Share Posted December 9, 2016 Well I have read a few accounts of the story of Shingle Street. Ranging from Classified Documents being released early in 1993 stating that it was all rumor, to the account of an eleven year old boy talking to the father of his friend, who says it is true, and recalls taking his tractor onto the beach to collect the German bodies together. There are many more stories for and against whether it is true, all very believable. If it is a propaganda, then a good job has been done. I found reading through the links on google very interesting, as for giving my opinion as to whether I think it is true, I am afraid I can't say, because so many versions from ordinary people or government information are believable.Very Interesting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,533 Posted December 11, 2016 Report Share Posted December 11, 2016 Dukes wood Eakring Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted December 11, 2016 Report Share Posted December 11, 2016 ^^^^^^^^^^Wonder if that had anything to do with the oil production that went on there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 11, 2016 Report Share Posted December 11, 2016 Could be NBL...didn't know about any of that until I read a feature on here...very interesting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,594 Posted December 11, 2016 Report Share Posted December 11, 2016 I've posted about the oil production on another thread, but my cousin had a bottle of the first oil to be found at Eakring. He lived there and was given the labelled bottle when he was a lad. He kept it in a cupboard for years, until one day he went to look for it and it wasn't there. Apparently his mum had thrown it away when she was having a clear out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,533 Posted December 11, 2016 Report Share Posted December 11, 2016 Posted before in another thread but hay ho Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted December 11, 2016 Report Share Posted December 11, 2016 The number of nodding donkey's you used to see on the way to Skegness was quite amazing. Duke's Wood was one of the best kept secrets of WW11, starting production in 1939 it was a back up of immense importance to the war effort. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted December 13, 2016 Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 As a kid I used to see something at the far end of the cricket field ,near Conway road Carlton,was it a so called nodding donkey ?can anyone else remember it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,497 Posted December 13, 2016 Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 Crankypig, it was a coal-hopper or something like that and It was in the railway yard. I have a photo of me as a youngster with that in the background. It was a big concrete structure. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted December 13, 2016 Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 It was colloquially known as 'The Cenotaph ' and hoisted loaded coal wagons into the air,and then tipped the contents into the tenders of locomotives waiting below. It did away with antiquated cranes with grabs. Every large steam depot had them, and were easily noticed when trying to locate a shed in a strange town. This has previously been mentioned in a topic about Netherfield I believe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,533 Posted January 5, 2017 Report Share Posted January 5, 2017 Thought it worth posting this picture Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AfferGorritt 868 Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 To resurrect (is that how you spell it?) this thread ... Does anybody know anything about the Players shelters which, I believe, were huge? I worked there for 30 years, but never got to go in them, or even know where the access points were. Very remiss of me. How big were they? Can they still be accessed? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,071 Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Don't know how big Players Shelters were, but my son who lives in Hucknall has an Anderson shelter in his garden, he has covered it in grass and keeps his winter logs in it. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 16 minutes ago, AfferGorritt said: To resurrect (is that how you spell it?) this thread ... Does anybody know anything about the Players shelters which, I believe, were huge? I worked there for 30 years, but never got to go in them, or even know where the access points were. Very remiss of me. How big were they? Can they still be accessed? Just come off the phone with Mrs Catfan's uncle who now in his mid eighties worked at players all his life & he told me the entrances were inside No 1 factory on Alfreton Road & in the yard in No 2 factory on Radford Blvd. Huge massive places he said where you could actually go down in No 1 factory & surface in No 2 factory yard ! Out of interest all Players factories had air raid wardens stationed on the factory roofs during the war. Players bonded warehouse on Triumph Rd was at the time the highest building in that area ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paradiddle 145 Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Did my apprenticeship at Players (Radford) so have been in all the ARP tunnels. Music while you work was broadcast to the factories from a big valve radio/amplifier deep underground, I think Les Bacon was the operator. Hopefully there is an image attached of one of the shelters. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,267 Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 10 hours ago, IAN123. said: She paid 15 bob for stockings...said she tired of dying her legs with juice from tealeaves and used an eyeliner to simulate a stocking seam...times eh? My mum used gravy browning! Fine until it rained! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 We had the remains of an Anderson shelter at the bottom of our garden in Hucknall. My dad glazed it and we used to grow tomatoes there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,089 Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 We had one in our garden at Park Road in Woodthorpe. My father and I set about the concrete sides with picks and sledge hammers to release the corrugated iron bits which he sold as there was still a market for them in the late 50’s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DavidA 153 Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 We had one in our back garden on Hazel Grove, Mapperley. It was full of rubble in my time (70's & 80's) and inaccessible. It was all below surface, and had brick steps down, a flat concrete top, with a slightly raised section/lid which you could just about slide off. I think you'd have been able to stand up under the lid section. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
swe62 334 Posted April 15, 2018 Report Share Posted April 15, 2018 our tea room at depot corner was an air raid shelter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted April 16, 2018 Report Share Posted April 16, 2018 I remember my aunties Mother-in-law in Chester-le-Street had an anderson shelter in her garden, I loved playing in it when we lived up there... There was a brick & concrete air raid shelter in Trent Bridge school playground. We had a nuclear attack drill & had to go & sit in the smelly thing in 1963 in the Cuban missile hoo-ah... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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