More information : The Second World War road block is centred at TV 6231 9989 and measures approximately 14m wide by 1m deep. It is narrower than other nearby roadblocks (e.g. Monument Number 1541139), and appears to be of a different sort of construction, maybe scaffolding poles. 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). |