More information : The Second World War road block is centred at TV 6111 9805, just inland from the tip of Western Lawns. It appears to consist of large rectangular blocks, maybe of concrete, which are located at either side of the road, leaving a narrow gap in the centre. Similar road blocks existed along the length of the Eastbourne seafront, and would have been intended to hinder enemy progress in the event of invasion.
By the time of the vertical aerial photograph of 1944, the road block had been removed along with all the others along the seafront at Eastbourne. This seems to have coincided with the installation of anti-invasion scaffolding at the northern end of the Eastbourne seafront. It may have been decided that the presence of the scaffolding rendered the road blocks obsolete (1-2). |