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charlie_cochrane) wrote2019-07-11 07:34 pm
charlie_cochrane) wrote2019-07-11 07:34 pm
Stepping into the past part three
The final part of our adventure last Sunday was down a Hohlgangslagen (cave passage) in St Helier. Both interesting and extremely moving. This split into two passages, neither of which were competed due to hitting a rock fault, so used for storage rather than a way to swiftly take injured soldiers to the military hospital.
The soldiers based there had apparently passed the time by painting the wall with a town map, featuring their favourite strip club.
But more poignant were the etched names and dates that must have related to slave workers who worked - and probably died - creating these structures. We must never forget the horrors of those years.
The soldiers based there had apparently passed the time by painting the wall with a town map, featuring their favourite strip club.
But more poignant were the etched names and dates that must have related to slave workers who worked - and probably died - creating these structures. We must never forget the horrors of those years.