Lousy photo I'm afraid...it was late afternoon and low sun back in 2020. Not one I bothered showing when I saw it on our walk round Cuckmere Haven, but I thought it might have once been something interesting. There was no plaque and I didn't find anything out about it online. Sometimes you just have to wait though for the information to turn up...usually when you're least expecting it!
This wooden hut is now in privately owned and used to store fishing tackle. In 1900 the Anglo American Telegraph Company bought a plot of land and built the cabin station upon from which to operate telegraph lines which ran under the sea to France. In 1940 all the lines were cut and the hut was requisitioned as a pillbox. It didn't fare well with the army gunfire and was left in a ruinous state at the end of the war. In 1947 what remained of it was moved to a different site. Captain Douglas Ann restored it and it remains in his family's possession.
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Strange building - interesting tale!
ReplyDeleteOften it's the most unprepossessing of things which tell the greatest tales. Arilx
DeleteOoh, interesting story about the hut!!
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