Tanks for the memories

I’m pretty much a pacifist but it’s pretty cool coming across abandoned tanks, as I have done in the last three places I’ve lived: Wiltshire, London and Cornwall.

The top one, spotted on the way to Imber, is one of many littered on Salisbury Plain, where the military use them for practice. The middle tank is a Soviet-built T-34-85, used as a prop in the film Richard III in 1995, then bought by a Bermondsey resident for his son and proudly displayed in a local vacant lot. When I worked in London Bridge I could pop and see it at lunchtime. It gets painted every few years. Bottom, not technically a tank as there’s no gun, so more prosaically a people carrier (boring), stumbled upon near Pool, Redruth, and this one actually works, for I’ve also seen it parked in a car park for the local chippie.

This is the only post that combines tags for Obscure London, Weird Wiltshire and Capricious Cornwall.

Previously on Barnflakes
Untitled (Tank You NHS)
The Imperial Peace Museum
Straight Outta Imber
Putting the War in Warminster