Beautifully illustrated version of my #Clevedon Military History Trail by @ECMillustration available as a free downloadable PDF from @DiscovClevedon courtesy of #ClevedonBID. Dig below the surface and every town and village has a fascinating story to tell. discoverclevedon.co.uk/wp-co…

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The #Volgograd Panorama Museum from the Volga river, image captured on #VictoryDay 2002. To the right of the museum (the round building), the red brick ruins are the remains of a flour mill. Beyond that one can just make out the roof line of a building built on the site of the famous House of Pavlov. Part of the original structure is preserved in the newer construction. If there is a location where the tide turned for the Wehrmacht during #WW2 then this riverside enclave would surely qualify #Stalingrad

On this day - at 10:20 in the morning, 16 October 1970, two of Clevedon Pier's eight spans collapsed during a load test. On hearing about this calamity, local man Ralph Fryer went home and picked up his cine camera. He recorded the scene on Clevedon beach before heading down to Clevedon Pill, and then returning to the pier aboard his boat in order to capture close up shots of the damaged structure. This is the footage that Ralph shot, now safely preserved in the South West Film and TV Archive @clevedonpier youtu.be/Y2UDp7NpXFU?si=55W1… – at Clevedon, England

In 1998 the acclaimed motor racing photographer #LouisKlemantaski visited Birnbeck Pier with two other DMWD (Wheezers & Dodgers) veterans. He sketched out sites near Weston-super-Mare that were used for secret weapons testing during #WW2. I used @ChatGPT to create an interactive @googlemaps and here it is: google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1…

When the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (the Wheezers and Dodgers) requisitioned #BirnbeckPier in 1941, there was an immediate need for various types of boats for ordnance retrieval, the placement of marker buoys and the movement of equipment and personnel. Quite a few vessels were requisitioned locally and a Weston-super-Mare engineering company, Crowe and Green, was taken on to maintain them. The full story is here: walkingthebattlefields.com/2… – at Clevedon, England

There are some interesting artefacts from HMS Birnbeck (the DMWD ‘Wheezers and Dodgers’) on display at Weston-super-Mare Museum - including part of a ‘Parachute and Cable’ rig (PAC). This was a defensive system used to ensnare Luftwaffe aircraft during attacks on Allied merchant shipping #BirnbeckPier