Fair bit of WWII stuff most of the pill boxes have been bricked up. Used to be an AA rocket battery in Bebington, demolished about 20 yrs ago.

Local area had some history, but the prehistoric was a surprise. What was my regular Pub began as a Pele tower... my crowd used to carouse under the plastered over, rounded ceiling of lower room for Stock... now a dining area. There is a very worn and rather deadly, (To The Drunk!), stair to upper floor... and there was a tunnel to nearby church, though sealed up, in fireplace. Remains of 'Vicar's Pele' still standing.
WW1, there was a landing field, presumably for night fighters. WW2, a small POW camp, think for Italian POWs.
When I was young, there were quite a few WW2 Pillboxes and concrete 'Tank Traps'around but most have now gone.
On trips to beach, you could sometimes find the iron stakes for wire. We once found spent Cartridge case for .303. Probably from LDV activity, but could, possibly, have been from RAF when hammering Luftwaffe Bombing raid from Norway, 1940.
Once, when a child, uncle took us to the well scavenged remnants of crashed B17 on top of Cheviot. Somewhere, still have bit of oxygen tube, scrap of parachute silk and a couple of plates from Flak Jacket. Sometimes wonder whether I should send to U.S VA, but doubt that I will get round to doing it.
There is History, everywhere... but most do not 'see' it.

I've been on archeological digs and surveys in my area, found traces of strip agriculture in a local wood, helped dig out 16th century witches scrap heap near Pendle, and saw indications of what is evidently a Roman road on the side of Pendle. We have the mounds created by lime extraction process in the 18th-19th century up on the moors.

Not to mention I've seen the 300 million year old sea fossils on Worsaw Hill about 700' ASL currently.

I am fascinated by what was here before the Romans, and just after, but the records for Lancashire seem sparse.

I gather the tribes that lived here didn't agree with the Roman occupation, and they had to send in forces which almost depopulated the region. In the period some time after the Romans left, I think a lot of people displaced by Vikings from the east coast migrated here, but I stand to be corrected on this. Wasn't Lancashire in effect part of the Cumbrian kingdom to the north of here for some time?

Quote from: paulr on 06 May 2023, 08:03:20 AMDouble planking with a few inches of gravel between for added 'protection'

Ah! That is interesting.

Thank you.

@ paulr.
Good job Maori did not have canon!
Imagine a ball hitting that!
Mixed earth and stones... well, ok... but loose stones? Better to stick with planking!