33/365: Lewis Tower

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33/365: Lewis Tower

Our second day in Jersey, and we decided to take a drive around the island.

Jersey is an island full of history, a bastion of the United Kingdom on the edge of mainland europe and with a strong military heritage – particularly from World War 2 when the channel islands were a small foothold the German Army held in the United Kingdom.

Adolf Hitler fortified the island, and there is a lot of evidence still of the German occupation.

Lewis Tower was originally built to defend against the French, but during World War 2 was modified with a concrete tunnel to the right of the tower which housed a searchlight.

It can now apparently be rented to stay in!



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