Pas-de-Calais Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/pas-de-calais/ Mechanically-minded travel Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:12:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Calais WW2 Memorial Museum https://mechtraveller.com/2024/09/calais-ww2-memorial-museum/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/09/calais-ww2-memorial-museum/#respond Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:08:51 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=10558 The Calais Memorial Museum (Le Musée Mémoire 39-45 de Calais) is housed in a large (94m long) German WW2 concrete bunker in the middle of the Saint-Pierre park in downtown Calais. The bunker was a command post, built in 1941 for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy). Hidden among the trees in the park and strictly off-limits […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/09/calais-ww2-memorial-museum/feed/ 0 Bullecourt 1917 Museum, Pas-de-Calais https://mechtraveller.com/2024/09/bullecourt-1917-museum-pas-de-calais/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/09/bullecourt-1917-museum-pas-de-calais/#respond Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:12:59 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=10516 The ‘Bullecourt 1917, Jean & Denise Letaille Museum’, to give it its full name, is the home of an evocative collection of WW1 artefacts collected and preserved by Bullecourt farmer and former mayor, Jean Letaille and his wife Denise. Jean had been finding battlefield relics in his fields for years. In fact, everyone did. In […]

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