Folks, These are Anti-Landing Poles which still remain at Murlough near Ballykinlar Camp. As well as the larger poles there are rows of the remains of smaller obstacles. Can anyone give me any information regarding such obstacles?
Interesting! I didn't realise they were there! Generically known in wartime as "Asparagus" I believe....they would often have cable strung from post to post in long lines, in line ALONG the long axis of any possible landing sites.....of which this would a potential good one - waterlogged sand is nice and firm and weightbearing! But once it dries out, however...! As the Luftwaffe found out at Sandvoort in Holland in May 1940. Because of that - that there was a very limited "duration" when wet sand is potentially useful as a landing site - I'd guess a 1940 date, in that "attack from above panic period" that Peter Fleming discusses. Somewhere on this board there's a wonderful 1944 pic of a V-1 that has glided down to a neat halt in between two rows somewhere in Kent! I guess - if they've lasted so long - that they were weatherproofed in some way? Maybe pressure-treated with creosote like telephone poles???
