Talk:Shingle Street

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There appears to be more to Shingle Street than has been included in this article if you believe this http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/dont_miss/codename/bodies_on_the_beach1.shtml Should some of be included here? DancingGerbil (talk) 12:52, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Wartime "Invasion" at nearby RAF Bawdsey seen from Shingle Street?

I recall reading somewhere, probably online, that it is said that soldiers or the home guard at Shingle Street reported seeing what they thought was an invasion happening further south down the coast. The explanation given was that they were seeing something happening on the continental coast, not the Suffolk coast.

But the RAF Bawdsey article says that a bungled training exercise resulted in petrol being set alight on the sea as a defence. If both of these are true, then perhaps that is the explanation.

Edit: this may be the incident referred to in the link from the section above. 92.24.133.112 (talk) 09:52, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

The RAF Bawdsey section was added by User:Ancient Mariner 147 and, To date, that is this editors only contribution to Wikipedia. Unfortunately, no citations have been provided. Perhaps one day those all-important, but unspecified, D-notice protected documents will be released and the relatives of the incinerated casualties will learn the truth. In the meantime I am inclined to take the whole story with a pinch of salt. In any case, the incident is said to have occurred in 1944 - a bit late for the Single Street invasion stories which centre on 1940 and anything later than 1941 make no sense at all. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 13:43, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Glacial erratics at Shingle Street

There are one or two large granite rocks at Shingle Street, flush with the surface. 92.24.187.169 (talk) 11:12, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Could be beach stabilisation boulders - these have been commonly used along the shingle coastline (for example, at Slaughden) to encourage accretion of beach material. East Anglia doesn't have too many natural erratics. Blue Square Thing (talk) 14:15, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

If they are stabilisation boulders then they must be very old as I saw them before 1970 and subsequently. They are inland, between a gap in the cottages. It was only decades later that rocks were placed on the tide-line as coastal defenses. These are much bigger, perhaps too large to be moved around. According to the Glacial erratic article, there is one at Morton in Norfolk. There are also two smaller rocks in Diss Norfolk which seem likely to be erratics, as nobody would have any reason to transport them hundreds of miles. I believe that glaciers of the various ice-ages stopped in East Anglia at least once or twice. 92.24.177.242 (talk) 15:13, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

I see - that's quite interesting actually. Maybe they are erratics - there's one at Stockton near me as well (just in Norfolk). I just assumed they'd be shore defence work - it's possible they may be from after the 1953 flood perhaps, there was lots of work done along the whole coastline after that of course.

I guess the best thing to do would be to hit the geology sources and see if anything's mentioned. I'll see what I can find when I eventually get back to this article, probably months in the future, but if you can find anything stick it here and we can work it up. Thanks for your interest - do you have some coordinates for the approximate spot I wonder? Blue Square Thing (talk) 17:44, 25 March 2021 (UTC)