anything from ww2 on the farm?

[Red Fred]

I have the reflector of a German searchlight in the shed. I have a pretty good idea of how it arrived back here too via RAF Transport Command. When we were kids, we used to use it for setting fire to bonfires by focusing the sun's rays on the fire heap. I left it leant the wrong way against a wall once and burned a hole in my trousers by standing in front of it.

 

[phillipe]

mother in law

 

[Lofty1984]

there are plenty of pill boxes and other structures dotted around this area often see them on our contracting round being coastal in parts and having landow air field and raf st athan close by and the close proximity to Cardiff must of meant extra security

 

[roscoe erf]

there are plenty of pill boxes around here one of the draw backs of a close proximity to Cardiff

 

[Lofty1984]

 

[joe soapy]

Somewhere in the house i have Great Uncles call up for first world was, stated he could bring his horse if he wished .
Also somewhere is a 3ft lenth of rail line complete with chair that got blown out of railway cutting into field 600 yds away.
Also a gap in hedge still blocked with galv sheets where the yanks drove their tanks through.
And a wife that was evacuated from Slapton during the training for Normandy landings

 

[Lofty1984]

Be really interested to see his call up papers joe

 

[had e nuff]

We still use some huts that were used to house Italian prisoners of war.

 

[theboytheboy]

This isView attachment 555668 the Morrison air raid shelter that was issued to my father during the war, with several bits that I added for various reasons. We used it as a workshop bench for many years until I sold it on Ebay to a military collector a few years ago, for £21.

We still have one of these.
Plus the bases of searchlights trying to spot planes on the way to or from bombing Portsmouth and Southampton.
Lots of bombs ploughed up. Old gamekeeper had a live one as a doorstop untill the police spotted it one day and confiscated it.
Crashed plane in field now sold. Some archeological group wanted to excavate it but grandfather refused saying let them rest in peace.
Load of old hay trailers with ww2 chassis and turntables.

 

[slackjawedyokel]

A decade or so a specialist archaeology group dug up bits of a spitfire that crashed on a mates farm nearby. Two had been training and one had gone through the tail of the other (all killed).
The bodies had been recovered at the time, as well as the wings and lighter bits that would have snapped off on impact. What the archaeologists mainly unearthed was the RR Merlin III engine, which being heavy was well down in the earth. It was amazingly intact; the oil had been contained inside so all was still nice and shiny with the case removed.

 

[joe soapy]

Be really interested to see his call up papers joe

me too, iput them somewhere safe, will find it i hope, but its not where i expected it to be

 

[TripleSix]

A decade or so a specialist archaeology group dug up bits of a spitfire that crashed on a mates farm nearby. Two had been training and one had gone through the tail of the other (all killed).
The bodies had been recovered at the time, as well as the wings and lighter bits that would have snapped off on impact. What the archaeologists mainly unearthed was the RR Merlin III engine, which being heavy was well down in the earth. It was amazingly intact; the oil had been contained inside so all was still nice and shiny with the case removed.

My dad went to have a dig on the moors somewhere in the 70's at a Lancaster crash site.
On very rocky ground there wasn't really any recognisable bits, they'd hoped to find a complete Merlin, but when they dug up an engine valve, nowhere near an engine but still wearing it's valve guide and spring they realised the severity of the impact.

 

[Farmerdunk]

Our Dutch barn is from a ww2 camp site. Has been filled with 12000 small bales for the last 60 years!!
A farm just down the road has got a American air base!! The landing strips are still in use for tractors now. Several pill boxes, sheds and lots of engines for fighter planes buried under the fields. Found lots of paint in 205 litre drums. They dug big holes and just pushed it all in and left in a hurry.

 

[Kevtherev]

Spitfire crashed near here and my late grandfather was one of the first on the scene being on home guard patrol.
The engine and part of the fuselage are still in the ground.
The Canadian pilot blacked out in a vertical dive and was killed in the impact.

 

[Still Farming]

Old Spitfire wheels .
Old Air raid shelter thick zincs -was somewhere.

 

[AvonValleyFarmer]

Got an unexploded bomb buried under one of my fields. My Dad said they used to poke it with sticks when they were kids. It was dropped by a German who should have dropped it on Coventry. Either deliberately or not.

 

[Lofty1984]

A decade or so a specialist archaeology group dug up bits of a spitfire that crashed on a mates farm nearby. Two had been training and one had gone through the tail of the other (all killed).
The bodies had been recovered at the time, as well as the wings and lighter bits that would have snapped off on impact. What the archaeologists mainly unearthed was the RR Merlin III engine, which being heavy was well down in the earth. It was amazingly intact; the oil had been contained inside so all was still nice and shiny with the case removed.

Did they film it and make a documentary I'm sure I've watched something similar to what your describing?

 

[Old Boar]

My loo seat. Not very exciting, but instantly recognised by the people who were evacuated here during the war.
My fridge misses out by 5 years.

 

[Kevtherev]

'War digs with harry harris'

 

[Sussex Martin]

'War digs with hairy arris'

Corrected that for you Kev .