85 year old blocks of concrete in the Worcestershire countryside.

This is a slight precursor to launching my other blog page on fully researching and documenting the entire remaining parts of Western Command Stop Line No 28 / Teme stop line. Of the defences put in place in 1940-41 to prevent an assumed German Nazi invasion of the United Kingdom and especially the defences around Worcestershire to prevent or slow the invasion reaching the industrial heartland of the English Midlands. The defence lines based around the Teme river are amongst the smallest. Despite that, they are the most interesting to me as a number were in what would even now be considered to be remote locations. The idea of using the Teme river as a natural barrier then re-enforcing with road blocks, removal or blocking of bridges combined with weapons dumps, machine gun posts and pillboxes was designed to slow any invasion party from getting up from Bristol or the Devon coasts towards the arms factories of Birmingham and the Black Country. Remote locations or not, obviously post…