Remnants of WW2, Exploring History!

[@SuperSavage35]

I love things like this especially related to ww2 mainly because I find it fascinating and I have a lot respect for all those that took part in it. I look forward to more vids about things like this.

[@markhowards420]

IKS Exploration do this kind of thing all the time, worth checking out if you haven't already.

[@LambChopRides]

Great video spicy, lived on hayling all my life and didn't know all of this!! Well done matey 👍

[@MJ-es9qh]

One of your best videos mate

[@cloggsy1971]

Good video Spicy; love all things WWII related, especially the European Theatre. Look forward to seeing more of these 👍🏻 Thank you 👌🏻

[@walkingwounded3363]

I remember going on a tour of spitbank fort 20+ years ago when I was a nipper. they used to run boat trips out to it from Portsmouth dockyards. Great fun walking through the tunnels with a candle. I'd love to go back but I couldn't afford it now it's a luxury hotel!

[@richardp3159]

Thanks Spicy, interesting to see those old WWII structures. The Cold War stuff is interesting too.

[@FSMadness]

I loved this video Mate. It’s super interesting and I love learning about world war 2. I live right round the corner from you in Gosport and there’s lots of interesting stuff from world war 2. Here aswell such as pill boxes fort gillkicker and there’s also lots of interesting facts about lee on Solent airfield.

[@adenlamb9916]

Along the Holderness coast theres loads of old forts and gun emplacements guarding the entrance to the humber and hull ports. There are some huge old gun emplacements that are falling into the sea but you can still climb up and walk inside. theres also two sand forts in the estuary its self which still stand. One of the forts has had a life afer the war as a rehab centre but is now for sale.

[@Jordan-qq7wt]

Very interesting , can't wait to see more

[@goodwolfoutdoors9688]

really enjoyed watching this, it was really interesting

[@maycrotch8576]

Wow what a fascinating vid. I love watching WWii programs on TV and this was right up there. Im definitely more aware of portsmouth and hayling island's involvement. We'll done Spicy, this vid was really worth all your effort👍👌

[@cisium1184]

This was fascinating. Thanks!

[@BickMitchum]

Really enjoyed this found it extremely interesting we have a few pillboxes on the southwales coast but was mainly air bases we had here including a secret Lancaster storage place

[@BrennanMoto]

Very cool video man! 👊🏻👍🏻 it’s always cool to see and learn about different cultures from my own! :) you seem to know your stuff!

[@philipp1767]

Hi spicy.... 09:49 or there abouts. Take a closer look at those two boats on legs on the marsh's there... I know one of them has an interesting history. You will see on closer inspection it too is ww2 and was never intended to last this long.

[@philipp1767]

Next time you go to loomies on a warm night take a run out to Lasham airfield on the 339. On the lanes about it and near to the side road crossroads you can find pill box's bomb shelters and other structures all open easily accessed and well worth recording

[@spicy110]

Thanks for the tip!

[@internalcombustion6704]

Great video spicy theres nothing much like that near me very interesting would love to see more of this content

[@altypeRR]

Much of what washes up on the coast down here in fact is our own ammunition and bombs. At the end of the war many of the ships were ordered to sail from Portsmouth out to a predetermined point to dump ammo. But sailors being sailors and it being a job and knock exercise they were chucking it over as soon as they cleared Portsmouth. That’s why it washes up.

[@edwardpurkis1084]

Loved the video, it’s awesome, definitely up for more of this stuff, anything you think you would like to make:)

[@coast2coast00]

I come from central Canada, Thunder Bay on Lake Superior. It was a huge port for shipping everything from western Canada out to Europe. I don't know of any fortifications from WW2, there are some from way before that though. We did have air raid sirens throughout the city(taken down in the '90s) from the war as we were an important target with like a years worth of food for England in 5 sites in the port, plus large production of Hurricanes. Also any time you went on a road trip with someone older, they would point out every half hour as you went past POW camps where they held German soldiers during the war.

[@spoonzr6064]

Loved this vid Spicy, around where I live there are still a load of old pillboxes we played in as kids. Around here there were parachute mines and high explosive bomb sites but we never knew back then or id have been playing around trying to find fuses

[@knightowl3577]

A fascinating and informative video. Mixing your vlogs content away from a solely motovlog base is working very well.

[@oxide_fx]

Fantastic video Spicy! I love WWII history. When I was in the Cadets, they took us to a military fort and I got to shoot at the same firing range as my grandad had trained at many, many years earlier.

[@spicy110]

Now that must have been awesome

[@philipp1767]

Forgot to add, when using BING Maps at O S level. You will find many features listed either as reservoirs or water tank, when examined or visited you will find they are underground bunkers. A good example is an Winchester and was a ww2 air control room. Another near Hannington mast is now a seizmic sensor a third is near Overton sports ground and has been restored and you can visit

[@cdnjuggalo28]

Very interesting video thanks for the history lesson

[@maxfleming85]

Great video, I live in Portsmouth and find the local history really interesting. Up behind Ditcham Park school near Rowlands castle, submerged in some bushes, there is anti-air defences - all intact and pretty cool but just hard to reach !

[@musicmanluke3586]

i love this vid so much i would love to see how u made it and the softwre design things u used really good vid more science and History with spicy pls

[@easternmenace]

I love this. I've been to a few war sites around EU. An abandoned military base in east Germany where my dad served while germany was under soviet control, also been to Hitler's bunker in Poland and some forts back home. Also in the forests near my grandparents there are loads of holes in the ground, some big enough to hide a tank in. These were used by the soviets to fight our rebels but some of the smaller holes and even bunkers in the ground were used by the rebels themselves. Also been to a few places here in UK.

[@Sweetmanmoto]

Excellent video! It would be great to see more

[@donky75]

Nice history lesson.loved the vid

[@aarontaylor2815]

I love this video, please carry on doing these sorts of videos. When I get my blogging channel I'll be doing the same thing with where I grew up

[@ephphatha230]

That was interesting. I live right near the old RAF Buttonwood which was a massive airbase for American planes in Ww2. Sadly there's not much left now but there used to be some old hangars.

[@matthewj2138]

I have found a few pill boxes in my local area in Northern Ireland but the weirdest and coolest one I found was a “triangulation station” was pretty cool

[@nrobin6854]

Good video Spicy, and must’ve taken quite a lot of work to put together Fascinating stuff from our past that provides us with a real tangible connection to it Loads of Martello towers, machine-gun posts and pillboxes near me as well as strange old concrete roads that don’t seem to go anywhere. All of this is coastal but I have seen videos of secret underground bunkers much, much further inland even in woodland, staffed by the elite of the home guard, just in case invasion got that far

[@CoyoteMTB77]

Nice one Spicy, I love this sort of stuff and look for lots at Selsey where I go regularly see my parents. The WW1 listening post just off the Bill is now someone’s house

[@kieronwheeler3087]

That's an amazing piece of history right there. I live in Norfolk so we have a lot of bunkers and other war time miscellany, but I had no idea that any phoenixes had remained in British waters, I believed that many were destroyed to prevent them from blocking shipping lanes. I've always been interested in wartime history, and I'm quite fortunate to live within 35 miles of the supposed site of the only attempted German landing on the British mainland, and one of very few sites where static defensive flamethrowers were supposedly used to deter an invasion, although there are conflicting stories, with many civilians around the area claiming to witness it, and that they helped to clear the beach of remnants, and charred bodies afterwards, and even reporting that dead bodies washed up on the beach some time after the invasion, and the government officially denies anything happened other than weapons testing. It's quite an interesting event to look into, and is a mystery that may not be resolved for many years.

[@spicy110]

Wow I did not know about this I will look in to it!

[@kieronwheeler3087]

@@spicy110 It's Shingle Street in Suffolk.

[@kieronwheeler3087]

@@spicy110 Many people claim that its not true, but then again, many locals report clearing the beach afterwards, a few report finding rubbish, and German supplies on the beach, above the high tide mark, and even some people from Northern French harbours report seeing wounded German troops returning in damaged boats

[@chrishopwood6938]

I live right near the long moor ranges near old prince Philip barracks next the old canadians camps in Headley down ludshott common and bramshott. All the camps where names after 3 great lakes and there are all sorts of buried bunkers old tank parts even memorial to the Canadian troops. Might be worth a visiting as it 5 10 minutes from haslemere motorcycles.

[@RegularJon]

On the subject of craters, I went to see The Fauld Crater recently, definitely worth a look in to as it’s a pretty tragic story but also shocking none the less! You don’t get a huge amount of war time history in the midlands though!

[@Meifesto]

My little brother took a old grenade home once. When my dad saw it he recognized it had been blown yet, so put it in the back garden and called the police. When the bomb expert came we had to move to the second floor and away from the windows (or leave the house). (which we obviously didn't ) In the end they took it with them to blow it up on a safer location.

[@HippoDrones]

Loved the video Spicy, would love to see more like it too! :-) Really cool use of google earth. I always thought the concrete embedded into the banks were sea defences to stop erosion, so interesting to hear they could have been anti-tank defences :-)

[@Ptboy167]

The large concrete blocks on the beach with the loop holes, could have been teather points for barrage balloons.

[@spicy110]

I don't think they need 30 ton weights for them, they used to have them attached to small trucks. Having done a little more research it seems I was right that they were weights for the Mulberry harbour. ☺

[@ANGRYP1R4TE]

The rest of the Mulberry Harbour is in Arromanches 👍 Been to Normandy twice and despite having seen it before the scale of what's left is still huge each time you see it again. Hugely enjoyed this video, and would LOVE to see more! At the AA position, you're quite right, the 'hollow' bit at the one side would have contained an ammunition lift connected to a subterranean magazine and possibly command room, which would have been in touch with local radar and plotting stations to track German aircraft movement and provide early warning. The building that's now used by the council would have been a shelter by the look of it, and would probably have had berms of dirt around it to mitigate splash/shrapnel damage from nearby bomb hits. In the case of a direct hit from even a 250kg bomb, you'd have been screwed though . As you can tell, this stuff is RIGHT THE FUCK UP MY STREET 😎

[@ThatBikerDad]

Spicy you should come up to sure and look at the old army camps in and around the village as well as the current army training grounds which contains something called the atlantic wall where they tested tank rounds and explosives for "operation Overlord"

[@thepangolinforge]

that was a very interesting video. most people would say that that's boring, so call me wierd but i found it very very interesting.

[@misterpwood]

The fortifications over at HMS Sultan in Gosport are interesting. But they're within the base and not sure how much you can see from the road.

[@brianfromireland]

Amazing video buddy

[@Gilerajohannes]

In Denmark in the part called Jylland on the west coast is remains from ww2 but from the Gearmans that had inwaded Denmark the Bunker Muserum in Hanstholm is a good example of how big those bunkers and guns where, we got allso bunkers elsewhere that is much older here in Denmark, but interesting video

[@tamarawootton1077]

I had never heard of the Phoenix caisson things before this had to look them up they look so different to the one there and its fascinating some are still in use today couldn't find any footage of them diving tho sadly still good stuff spicy.

[@peter8828]

good stuff man

[@portsmouthlivemusic]

Great stuff, forts on the hill next?? As to The Mulberry used to dive off that when I was a young lad, such fun (:

[@adcuz]

Good vid, very interesting. I see someone has adopted that floating harbour piece as storage for their lobster/crab pots.

[@spicy110]

Yep local fishermen have been storing pots and nets out there for years!

[@brokenlegz]

Very interesting video mr spice. Is sad to think about what these people had to do right where you stand. From Australia

[@kallumbmx]

those big conrete blocks with the steel runners, they remind me of boat runners, to get the boat into water. or maybe a gun runner?🤔

[@beans4491]

Spicy this is a very good video, so interesting. I live on Hayling and never really new what these buildings were. I did have a chat with you about a year ago by the cash point by the ice cream parlour and I do have one of your clocks lol. Very good mate.

[@spicy110]

I remember I bummed in to your son only a few weeks back 😁

[@emmettbyrne9835]

Great video Spicy. You should do a collaboration with IKS for some more WW2 structure's

[@shaunstacey4132]

Time team with spicy 👍

[@TheDeadliestGaming]

Hey spicy nice vid those big blocks I believe where anchor points for the submarine nets I work in Portsmouth harbour on the red tugs would love to go on a ride out this year maybe loomes cafe

[@deejayy2k]

if you haven't already, give IKS explorations videos a watch, he has a few videos on the portsmouth area.

[@ephphatha230]

There is a Google earth file with every piece of defense that was built in Ww2 against invasion, including what's been demolished. It's called the defence of Britain.

[@robehickmann]

Do make more of these. Are there any local groups or such you could reach out to to do a discussion on history stuff, or see things related to this which are not in public view?

[@RoadRashHD]

I have always been fascinated with the history there,not only the WW II stuff. i watch a few of you guys from the UK, and i wonder how old some of the shit i see is. Like the miles and miles of rock and brick fences i see,and some of the old buildings. It amazes me how old these things are lol

[@101steel4]

My village has thatched cottages with doorframes that a 5ft person would have trouble walking through lol. We also have a 12 century priory. It's normal for us, I used to live in London and used to fish outside Henry Vlll house ( Hampton court palace) yes our country is old 😁

[@adenlamb9916]

4:30 not 100% sure but it may have something to do with the massive undersea cables which i think run to Portsmouth.

[@spicy110]

It could also be submarine nets blocking the channel but you would think they would have had the ring facing the sea. The loop would be stronger in that orientation.

[@aa5871]

Find this stuff very interesting, my grandad's house was hit by a doodlebug during the second world war (kinda strange considering we live near Canterbury in Kent haha)

[@GayCheesetuber]

Awesome Video Spicy! If you would indulge me for a moment I would like to add more specifics. The many small boxes are, from my understanding, Type 22 Pillboxes. These were small fortifications designed for infantry with rifles. Also, key to note the Pillbox in the center of the island seems to be a modification on the Type 22 with a Shellproof design. The concrete cubes and cylinders are indeed anti-tank defenses, similar to Dragon's Teeth. The interesting thing is the differentiation of fortifications. For example, I live on the GHQ Line, it was the last line of static defenses before London. Here we have many different Pillboxes, from Type 23 Light AA, Type 24 which are larger Type 22's with a few of the ports designed for Bren LMGs and a few Type 28 Anti-Tank Pillboxes these had a few rifle ports but one large port for a 2-pdr (40mm) or 6-pdr (57mm) anti-tank gun. There also used to be barracks for Gurhka Soldiers right next to where I live but sadly they have been destroyed and the land built on. But I did get to go inside (once as part of a school trip and a few by holes in the old fencing around the place, however, that fencing still stands in some places) In face they found an old German bomb (I think a 500KG) while demolishing the barracks. This was because we have both Aldershot Garrison and Farnborough (which used to be an RAF proving ground where captured or experimental aircraft were flown) nearby. So yeah that's all I got to add oh actually, the army does not operate Chinooks. They are owned by the RAF, I would get so uptight about it but my dad's in the RAF and he operates them!

[@mightybeanstick9872]

A similar pill box near me: www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8067694,-0.6872555,157m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en I'd guess ones like this were sited to give a field of fire over flat, open areas in case of glider or paratroop landings. BTW, ammunition storage is called a magazine, not battery. That term is used for a placement of several artillery pieces. Looking forward to more of this.

[@leep5038]

Spicy, we have pillboxes in reading, explain that one! We aren’t anywhere special haha

[@JustCallMeDavey]

Fucking loved it, mate.

[@bel_page]

So cool!

[@MickFist]

Great video man. Really interesting relics. Nice to hear about the wildlife repurposing the crators and the harbours. I wonder what historic stories still exist among the older generation? Funny, sad, heroic?

[@mikegodfrey2221]

Good Job spicy-i do believe west town was bombed as it was mistaken for pompey ?

[@thejediukuk]

enjoyed

[@DRIFT_CORE]

im not too sure if you read the comments anymore but i was just wondering if you still have friends at lexmoto who can lend you bikes especially as im looking to swap my adrenaline for a valiant

[@HalfdeadRider]

As you would imagine, there is a lot of this kind of stuff up the East coast too, as we are actually closer to Germany if they decided to come through the Netherlands and Belgium as well as France. And of course they came over that way for bombing raids, but most of the main cities in the UK were at risk from the bombers as you know. All interesting stuff, there is a pillbox not far from me and I'm 20 miles or so inland.

[@adenlamb9916]

Where abouts are you? I'm in hull myself and theres tons of forts and gun emplacements along the coast

[@HalfdeadRider]

@@adenlamb9916 I'm in Norwich mate.

[@adenlamb9916]

Ah, ok. There will be loads of fortifications all the way up, not sure how far though

[@palmertrees]

chain across?

[@Jordan-qq7wt]

It's a-live!!

[@Adam-ce2fe]

Did you manage to get it monetized?

[@spicy110]

Yes! With no changes I knew it was fine 🙂

[@maycrotch8576]

MOTTEN CHARENTAIS!!!!!!!!

[@chrishopwood6938]

Sorry to say this but it is an RAF chinook

[@spicy110]

Thanks, seems they are used by the army operated by the raf

[@chrishopwood6938]

@@spicy110 used alot know for medical evaction as army proffered small chopper in larger group to increase suviveablity

[@philipp1767]

@@spicy110 the oldest surviving chinook is at Odiham BN known as Bravo Nasty a relic from Falkland Isles and a hero of gulf wars

[@indobleh]

@@spicy110 RAF Odiham just up the road from me and when they fly low over Alton, shakes the windows, messes with your ear drums ! Pretty awesome really.

[@mrkiwijimmymrkiwijimmy2530]

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[@spicy110]

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