Shaldon & Teignmouth WW2 Defence

Hi all,
Hope you enjoy this video, it has taken a lot of editing but I wanted to get as much info included as possible.
As described in the video I will never forget all the service men and women who defended our country, home or abroad. It’s easy to forget how hard it must of been but also standing side by side in solidarity and in defence for our freedoms.
Thank you for watching
NP
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[@rabbastern]

Wir haben diese Orte besucht und nur nette, freundliche Menschen getroffen. Gott sei Dank haben wir diese schreckliche Zeit überwunden. Viele Ferien in GB in den letzten 30 Jahren haben uns glücklich gemacht. Beste Grüße aus Düsseldorf. Konrad.

[@-NewtonPiper-]

Vielen Dank für das ansehen meines Videos! Ich benutze einen Übersetzer, also hoffe ich, dass Sie meine Antwort verstehen. Wir sehen Narben im ganzen Land aus vergangenen Zeiten, aber dienen als Erinnerung daran, wie nicht zu sein. Freundschaft ist Glück und für immer halten wir Hände. Ich bin froh, dass Sie Ihre Besuche genießen und lange kann es weitergehen. Die besten Wünsche von Devon, Carl

[@rabbastern]

Hello Carl, thank you very much for your message - it is good to read that people are and think very much alike. It is important to have personal contact with many different people. This is the only way to get closer and get along better. In the last 30 years we have traveled all over Europe by car - we found friendship everywhere. We particularly enjoy traveling to Great Britain. In total we were allowed to spend about a year there. England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland / Ireland were our destinations. The south of England is very dear to us - in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and, most recently, Sussex - we felt particularly at home here. We also adore the royal family - the death of Prince Phillip makes us dead too. Especially when we think of HM THE Queen. I always write to her on her birthdays or anniversaries - her letters of thanks always make me proud. Thank you again and I wish you a nice day, Greetings Konrad / Düsseldorf

[@-NewtonPiper-]

@@rabbastern that’s so good to hear you love to visit our green and pleasant land. I hope you get to visit again soon 😊 It’s sad to hear about Prince Phillip but at least the Queen is still here. Have a great week my friend and be well. Carl Devon

[@Leo-pz5ge]

Give europa the last battle a watch 👍🏻

[@rabbastern]

@@Leo-pz5ge ????????

[@MrWozzy28]

being a local and born in shaldon i played in all those building and more. opposite the genarator building in the corner of the woods was a huge building with a huge slot in the front for some sort of big gun with anti air on the top. it was knocked a while ago by the people who owned the house behind. also on the top of the ness cliff was a pill box that fell over the cliff years ago. the grass bank below the ness house hotel as kids used to dig into and find loads of spent ammo. in one of the houses behind shaldon park they still have a air raid shelter made with concrete rings you can see it from the road. sometimes during hot weather when the grass has dried right out on shaldon green you can see the outline of the air raid shelter. there used to be a 2 landing craft on the beach which we would play in up pass ringmore they where removed years ago. great place to grow up loads of adventure. oh the rusty wheel you are looking at was for the sewage. when the tide started to go out a man from the water board would come and open that and let the sewage go out with the tide.

[@-NewtonPiper-]

That’s some great info and you sound like you had a lot fun growing up in the area. My fathers side where all Teignmouth and Dawlish lads. All the story’s and antics of the things that are now long gone are both funny and sad. Thank you for sharing that with me 😊👍

[@SmokingCardboard]

You did a great job with this video! Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas

[@-NewtonPiper-]

Thank you 😊 it took some editing but for now my skill is always improving. Merry Christmas Steve 😊👍

[@Horriblebastad]

It's April 5th

[@soundhobo]

Nice one fella 👍 As a kid me and my mates used to play in the many Pill Boxes, Coastal Lookouts and old Nissan Huts left over from WWII. Many still stand as a solitary lookout over the coast for enemy aircraft, ships, submarines or an invasion force that thankfully never came. My old Gran can remember all the barb wire, tank traps and mines on the beaches at Torquay. She was so happy to go down to the sea for a swim after the war ended and the beaches were made safe. The effort made to defend this Isle was colossal...and it worked. Thanks again, very interesting...👌

[@-NewtonPiper-]

Thank you 😊 I enjoyed making this video as I was there for some time and the things you see. It transports you back in time and as you said the collosal manpower to keep us safe. Hehe your gran sounded cool old school! Swimming the riviera after the end of the war. So many sentinels still stand today and as a reminder of a time that hopfully we will never see again. Cheers 😊

[@soundhobo]

@@-NewtonPiper- Gran was moved from Dartmouth to Torquay as the family house was requisitioned for the war effort as barracks for officers. She returned to Dartmouth in 1947. Her greatest memory was seeing the DDay forces set off from South Devon to there rendezvous points before going across the channel to Normandy. She new a little secret beach that hadn’t been mined and took her wartime dips there 🤫

[@-NewtonPiper-]

@@soundhobo hehe that is sooooo cool!!

[@soundhobo]

@@-NewtonPiper- ...she was a game old bird 😂

[@londoncallingwithsimon6817]

Nice..thanks for the tour..very interesting

[@-NewtonPiper-]

Thank you Simon, I know it’s not very pipe related but people really connect to our past. Love to find out more of what they smoked 😉

[@derisleybrittain]

Superb 👍👍💖💖😇😇😍😍👊👊

[@-NewtonPiper-]

Thank you kindly 😊👍

[@peterpipertrulite8629]

Excellent video Carl! Fine coverage of our struggle in the 20th century. Looks like you put a fair amount of work into it. Thanks so much!

[@-NewtonPiper-]

It took some doing haha and my skill at editing is t great but like all things improves with time. I’m so glad you like it. Merry Christmas my friend 😊

[@oldandintheway1955]

So peaceful and beautiful now. Nature reclaiming it's own. Thank you for the tour Carl. Very interesting indeed. All the Best Mate!!

[@-NewtonPiper-]

Thank you my friend that means a lot, glad you enjoyed it, stay safe too 😊👍

[@TheMountaineerPiper]

Very interesting. I love seeing stuff like this. Thanks for sharing, Carl!

[@-NewtonPiper-]

You are most welcome and thank you for watching 😊 hope You and your family are having a merry Christmas 😊👍

[@johndavey72]

Thankyou very much . Thoroughly enjoyable and informative . Lived in Shaldon for a number of years and had no idea ........obviously l wasn't nosey enough !! 😄😄

[@-NewtonPiper-]

You are most welcome! It’s always worth having a nose when out and about, you never know what you might find. 😊👍

[@brianquilty687]

You are so lucky to get that up and close to the local history . Spot on !!

[@-NewtonPiper-]

I am and am glad so many of you have enjoyed it! Makes it all worth while thank you 😊

[@cliffhiggins730]

OUTSTANDING video, Carl! I loved this!!!

[@-NewtonPiper-]

Thank you 😊 it took some doing and I’m glad you liked it! 😊

[@4one6Piper]

Love the military history. Certainly looks more peaceful now than back then. You have a beautiful voice for narrating. Great video Carl! Hope 2021 is happy and healthy for you and your family!

[@-NewtonPiper-]

And to you to Jorge hope You are having a wonderful time 😊

[@Gspitaletti]

Impressive , I'm crazy for this subject!! I grew up listening stories about sites, places and people not I live in a place where I can see with my own eyes.

[@-NewtonPiper-]

Ahhh well there is so much in London! Even along the themes river there are pill box’s not to mention the underground, war rooms where Winston Churchill made decisions for Britain. I’m glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@dalepiper6693]

Bravo my friend...it’s easy to forget the huge effort put into defending the nation in WW2. You show great locations ...really interesting. My mother often visited Redcar 0n NE coast in the war where she had relatives. They went ballroom dancing in the evenings and she said dozens of anti aircraft guns were positioned all along the front. There were always bombing raids going off as the Germans tried to bomb our heavy industry down the River Tees. She said it was really scary cos the guns were firing and they had to run and take cover in the shelters.

[@-NewtonPiper-]

I can’t even begin to imagine how scary that must of been, made of stout stuff that what I say. I sometimes think I was born in the wrong era. With such history we have all been touched by it even new generations who have no clue about the sacrifice made by our forbears. Your mum sounded like a real lovely lady John. 😊

[@ravenheartdetects]

How very interesting! I go metal detecting on both Shaldon and Teignmouth beaches. I shall look at both so differently now! Thank you!

[@-NewtonPiper-]

Thank you for you comment! My brother goes metal detecting too and I’m always fascinated by it. I’m glad you enjoyed the video 😊😊

[@themanofyorke6708]

Really interesting video Carl! I liked the documentary style really good!

[@-NewtonPiper-]

Thank you 😊 it’s no way as good as yours hehe but I’m getting better. Merry xmas to you and you lovely missus. 😊🎄

[@TheVictorianPiper]

Fantastic Carl. There is very little WWII infrastructure in Shropshire (other than airfields) as we are such a rural inland area. You still see a few pillboxes about and there was a POW camp locally but not much. Devon is such a beautiful part of the world, and the coastal area holds an awful lot of history 😊👍🏻

[@-NewtonPiper-]

There is so much to see and will get to see it at some point in the year (bloody lockdowns) I hope you are well my man and I hope to see you this year matey 😊👍

[@ParsimoniousPiper]

I am loving this series!

[@-NewtonPiper-]

Thank you 😊 happy new year!!! 😊

[@philtucker1224]

Some of those old defence buildings look very strongly built, probably a lot cheaper to leave them rather than try to demolish them. My Father, an Army Lieutenant had similar responsibilities guarding Ramsgate.

[@-NewtonPiper-]

Love to hear some of his stories! I think you are right that would make sense. Hope you are well! 😊

[@TheTunnellTake]

What an awesome place.

[@-NewtonPiper-]

Thank you Greg, it is a wonderful spot to have a bite to eat n drink smoke a pipe and be surrounded by beautiful vistas and history to boot. 😀

[@TheTunnellTake]

For sure

[@dunblanepiper4755]

Nice one Carl! Just shows how desperate times were when they were breaking out 1917 guns! Those rocket defences were not hugely successful - if they are the ones I’m thinking about, they trailed a wire after them that was supposed to bring enemy aircraft down by entanglement almost. Salvos went up in the path of approaching planes and the wires buggered them up. Supposedly!

[@-NewtonPiper-]

Oh my 😅 well I loved the name the troops gave them ‘uncle percey’s’ (UP)s or Unrotated projectiles. It was these old guns and the like they used as I suppose all the new or main artillery where being used further east or abroad. Make do and mend I think was the motto haha. So glad you like the video

[@dunblanepiper4755]

Request for future videos - the St Anthony Battery and RAF Davidstowe Moor! Currently googling stuff I would like to see down your neck of the woods! 😂 Some good looking coastal defence sites down there. Now wishing I had taken some video of a beach I was on in November that’s had really well preserved artillery emplacements at either end and big concrete tank blocks all along the upper fringe of the beach.

[@-NewtonPiper-]

@@dunblanepiper4755 I will look into the St Anthony Moor one just for you! Sounds like fun and I shall do some research this evening about it. It also sounded like a cool beach you went to and a shame you didn’t get any pics! That would of been cool to see. I shall of course keep you updated my man. 😃