Report - Building of creepy construction, Eastbourne, Dec '11

[the126]

This building was on the same site as this one:
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=66918

The building was at the back of the site and from a distance looked like any other trashed 1950's ex-council yard concrete pre-fab, which I wouldnt normally bother with! I had a look anyway and it was as I thought- wrecked (the sort of place that ends up in the pit 'o despair)! I was putting the camera away when I noticed an engraving in one of the walls, upon looking closer I realised what it was and asked myself...WTF?

Notice the engravings in the walls...

The blocks are First World War military headstones

I started thinking all sorts of things, mainly disgust at the thought of these memorials being used in such a way
I have since been in contact with a mate who is an expert on researching all things do to with military history and he traced the names on some of the headstones, thankfully he found the people are all buried in France.
Therefore we could only imagine that these stones were either flawed when they were made and rejected or were damaged at some point and replaced.


Not a building material you see everyday!

 

[Ant2011]

This building was on the same site as this one:
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=66918

Interesting find, and good to know they didn't desecrate any graves ;-)

That link doesn't work anymore. What site was the building on?

 

[monk]

Was behind the old pumping station, used to be a council yard, unfortunately the buildings have all been demo'd, minus the pumping station itself.

 

[the126]

As Monk already said it was behing the old bedfordwell pumping station.
The pump house is the only bit left and was about to be developed but it seems to have stalled

 

[monk]

Was a camera crew & a man in a suit being interviewed out front this morning, I was always told that the agreement was, if they developed it, they had to put a link road in through the fields.

 

[Bertie Bollockbrains]

very strange.

For the record any Commonwealth War Grave can be located using this link and the database of over 1.7million graves can be searched by surname, date, war, rank, regiment, or awards. Can confirm all the above names are buried at various cemeteries in France.