Demolition news from northern France
Some unfortunate news from Nord-Pas de Calais. In Dunkerque, a bunker was demolished to make place for new housing. At the Batterie Waldam with its famous concrete gun turret, the loose barrel of the flare gun which was still there seems to have been cut to pieces and disappeared.
The remains of the flare gun in 2003. (Photo: Arthur van Beveren)
According to this post on the french forum it sounds like it was a scrap hunter who cut it up for steel.
North, in a newly built neighborhood of Dunkerque, a bunker was demolished. Judging the photos in this topic I think it’s a 607 ammunition bunker.
The 607 is being demolished. (Photo: citadelle)
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 1:18 pm by Arthur van Beveren · Permalink
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In: Demolition/Disappearing, News · Tagged with: abriss, afbraak, atlantikwall, blockhaus, bunker, bunkers, calais, demolition, duinkerken, dunkerque, dunkirk, france, frankreich, frankrijk, nord, pas-de-calais, pillbox, sloop, waldam
on October 13, 2011 at 9:10 pm
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Sad infos, another war relic is dead.