War damage

You will see from yesterday's picture that Blaker's Park has no sort of fence around it. There were at one time iron railings sunk into that low concrete wall but back in 1940/41 the country was suffering a desperate shortage or raw materials to build guns, tanks, ships and planes to replace those left at Dunkirk, sunk by U-boats or shot down in the Battle of Britain. Housewives gave their aluminium saucepans to make into Spitfires while park and other ornamental railings were cut down to make ships and tanks. Look closely and you will see where there are stubs of the old railings sunk into the wall.