Photos taken at Shingle Street. Page 1/3

Newspaper Articles . The Battle of Britain and Operation Sealion . Letters

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The following series of photographs taken by my friend Desmond Steward shows the area at Shingle Street where the events described in these letters took place. Some thirty metres of shoreline have been lost to the sea since 1940; the winter storms especially the 1953 surge has reduced the coastline. The road built by the army after the evacuation of this hamlet in October 1939 finishes at the sea edge. In 1940 it extended some thirty metres East to a jetty built for a pipe laying barge to lay the fuel line some three miles along the seabed towards the Deben estuary.

See also, photographs showing trials of a fire barrage similar to that thought to have been used at Shingle Street

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1a. View at Shingle Street looking out to sea.

1b. View of the terrain at Shingle Street.

2a and 2b. The coastguard houses at Shingle Street. These buildings are situated on the beach and date back to before the war.

3a and 3b. Evidence of the concrete roads built to take army lorries.

4. Site of pits where bodies of German Soldiers were buried.