Friday 16 April 2021

Civil War era bunker

 Civil War era bunker

We haven`t as yet got around to actually buying a car and are renting (pretty damned cheaply) cars by the 2-3week period. Our last car came from a company called OK Car Hire and whilst we were waiting for the paperwork, etc I wandered outside for a big of fresh air, much to my surprise I saw a concrete bunker about 50yrds away in nextdoors (Enterprise) lot! 

This morning I made sure i took our camera with us for the car exchange and popped into the Enterprise lot and asked if I could take a few snaps (in my rubbish Spanish - quisiera tomo fotos por favor) all good.






I assume it was just a perimeter defense bunker for the airfield 
For anyone interested OK Car Rentals are situated at: Carreterra del Torrellano al Aeropuerto 79, Elche, Alicante, 03320 and the bunker is right next door.





5 comments:

  1. Hi Richard, these remind me of the abandoned bunkers scattered around the coastline here on the island of Tenerife, I imagine waiting for a WW2 allied invasion of the Canary Islands that never came.

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    1. Hi John, yes i remember looking at an old gun emplacement on Lanzarote when the kids were young, built to resist the Allies during WW2. I`ve spotted another near the port down in Alicante and hope to photograph it to soon.

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  2. Excellent. Ive seen the ones on Tenerife, many had sea shells placed on the cement while soft.

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    1. João, I thought taking a few images couldn`t hurt



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    2. Yes Joao, glad you saw them while you were here - a lot of them are decorated with volcanic rocks stuck into the cement, look quite decorative for a bunker :-).

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