A superbly preserved piece of WWII history an untouched Normandy German Gun Battery was on sale recently The huge gun battery and complex at Querqueville / Amfreville (Stp 277) was up for sale – earlier this year It has the view to die over Cherbourg harbour and also a magnificent view over the nature reserve and beaches in front of it it offers the buyer the opportunity to uncover an untouched battlefield – all left as was were after the war Why was it left… because had been closed off to the public since the war  The site also has a number of buildings which have not yet been re-uncovered after being closed off at the end of the war By way of a price comparison – there is a the 100 square metre German bunker that came up for sale in Cherbourg last month priced at €109,000 – it appears that the Battery York complex was a real bargain at €300,000 given the thousands of metres it covers… it will certainly only go up in value well-documented and undamaged Gun Batteries that is likely to ever come up for sale in Normandy The battery contains 4 huge German built casements (complete with rear ammunition stores and underground storage) as well as the mounts and casements for 4 Napoleonic guns… a big underground hospital Many platforms for wooden cabins (which can be rebuilt)… and it even has an almost complete gatehouse which can be lived in as all it needs is 2 doors and 2 windows so you already have your own on-site house Not to mention that the battery has its own – gated driveway with Victorian gate posts and original 15ft gates – offering all the privacy you could wish for There is a 7 metre x 4 metre water storage area which would make a great infinity pool and a large 3 story observation tower – not to mention a nice concrete anti-aircraft position – all built upon a Napoleonic gun position and ammunition casements – also it is ideal if you wanted to make the ultimate bachelor pad where you can wake up with a million dollar view The acres of land come with modern planning permission for additional buildings… but you probably wont need them The Germans built the site with more buildings than you could ever use or a magnificent site for a modern home… or you can simply be the only person in town with their own untouched German gun battery Just google “cherbourg batterie yorke” or Stp277 Amfreville (York) All coloured images from the website batteries.du.cotentin Huge fan of war history and rural history and a motorbike rider facebook.com/jack.beckett.73 instagram.com/history_bloke_on_a_bike/ linkedin.com/in/jack-beckett-56a76520/ A very luminous bolide was seen by many witnesses during the night of Sunday September 5 supported by the Observatoire de Paris - PSL the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle and the Université Paris Saclay It is indeed a bolide which was detected by the FRIPON network (which includes a hundred cameras deployed on the whole French territory thanks to an ANR financing and intended to detect this type of celestial objects) Nearly 250 witnesses (Figure 4) report a very impressive object that was also heard by some scientists were able to reconstruct its trajectory The main parameters of the event are a passage at the zenith of Brest and a bright end of trajectory in the English Channel at 39 km of altitude This is partly what explained the intensity of its luminosity The initial speed of 21.5 km/s ( 77 500 km/h) and an inclination of 34° to the horizontal did not allow the survival of a meteorite The object of about twenty centimeters disintegrated completely in the atmosphere Three FRIPON/Vigie-Ciel stations recorded the phenomenon: The bolide also passed over Brest (Service hydrographique et océanographique de la Marine); despite a local cloud cover On skywatch