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I was very excited recently when I identified these slips in Marchwood. They& #39;re Landing Craft repair slips, built in advance of D-Day and vital for #EmbarkingtheDDayArmada. And perfectly preserved, even the metal cradles are still there! Unfortunately... (short thread)
The view on Google Maps dates to 2016. Less than a year later and this was the view. It& #39;s a great shame as there are less well preserved slips of this design that are scheduled. In an ideal world these would have been too, but sadly it& #39;s probably a little too late now (continues)
It& #39;s not anyone& #39;s fault that they have been cleared - the slips sadly weren& #39;t on the local HER, so no-one will have had any reason to suspect their heritage. This piece of D-Day heritage has been identified just a little too late, a shame as it was so well preserved so recently.
But it highlights the importance of identifying such sites and adding them to archaeological records (especially local HERs) before it& #39;s too late. Otherwise we risk losing a lot of the Second World War infrastructure all around us, often unrecognised and uncared for.
Here& #39;s just some of that infrastructure that& #39;s still very much in use today. https://twitter.com/SeaSpitfires/status/1104332622287851520">https://twitter.com/SeaSpitfi...
And a little more. https://twitter.com/SeaSpitfires/status/1029665990710374401">https://twitter.com/SeaSpitfi...
And a really surprising one. All of these sites have been added to the Hampshire Historic Environment Record. It doesn& #39;t guarantee them preservation, but it does at least identify them. https://twitter.com/SeaSpitfires/status/1031892149271490560">https://twitter.com/SeaSpitfi...
