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Wartime Defences

Marine Parade c1955 Ref: L121243
Marine Parade c1955
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The photo caption for this in the book states that there were girders and wires and mines on Lyme beach during the war. My father Gilbert Atterbury was Town Clerk from the mid thirties until the late fifties and fought the War Office to keep Lyme beach open as tourism was all it had. As far as I know it was the only Dorset beach without giant concrete block tank traps seen in Seaton etc.,

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A memory of Lyme Regis in Dorset shared on Thursday, 22nd January 2009.

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RE: RE: Wartime Defences

My husband can remember plenty of barbed wire and tank traps on the beach in the war. The tank traps were on the beach until 1948. Barbed wire was opened for people to go on to the beach and closed again at 6pm.

Comment from Joan Gollop on Tuesday, 17th April 2012.

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