26 & 27 July – moved up the coast and visited Cap Gris Nez and could see White Cliffs of Dover – Very exicted to find lots of bunkers and traces of Henry II’s fort. Found an enormous doughnut shaped blockhaus or bunker on the way back – wandered around in the still hot air – the faint sound of a framer spraying his crops behind me.
These structures have a strong sculptural feel – coarse and certainly theres is something chilling about them but they remain stubbornly lumpen tucked away in copses and up quite lanes. Also caught site of the Tod Musee further up the coast -this place also has plenty of guns, guard posts and crouches sullenly looking out on the Channel.
The haunting aspect of all these defensive buildings is the role they played in the bombing of London and an intended invasion of the GB. The methodical, well recorded and systematic annihilation of millions of people all done on an industrial scale remains astonishing in its scale and ambition.
