montbrehain Posted 6 April , 2007 Share Posted 6 April , 2007 I have seen mention of the road repairs or upgrades to the area around ANZAC cove on the forum. I am attaching 2 pictures I took in 1989. If anybody is visiting this year ? I would be grateful if they could possibly take some "then and now" pictures. I would be interested to see (and I am sure forum members would be too ) just how the scene has changed ? Thanks "MO" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montbrehain Posted 6 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 6 April , 2007 Going back even further.... (and no I wasn't there that time !) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedog Posted 6 April , 2007 Share Posted 6 April , 2007 Mo Will be at Anzac area for 6 weeks , from April 11th. I will see how my photo skill go. In your first photo , the large pieces of rubble on the beach. Is that about the area of the fresh water condensors? or just natural erosion. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montbrehain Posted 7 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 7 April , 2007 Peter, Not sure about the bits in the first pic . But as for the "Block" in the second pic ? I think I am right in saying that this is a Turkish concrete bunker from well after the "Great War" that has rolled in to the sea. Turkey hasn't always been friendly with the Greeks and the whole peninsula has old defensive positions on it . I look forward to your comparison pics. Are you going alone or with the other Aussie forum members ? "MO" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedog Posted 7 April , 2007 Share Posted 7 April , 2007 Mo Going on my own again but will be with forum member Eric , have a cold beer meeting with Bill Sellars and I will try and catch up with Tuna. I was not talking about the blockhouse below Queensland Point , but the rubble on the beach about 400yards south of Ari Burnu Point towards the blockhouse. Intend to have a great time , but if I write on my visit it will be like schoolboy scrawl compared to Scottie's writings on his visit Regards Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krithia Posted 7 April , 2007 Share Posted 7 April , 2007 Very envious of your 6 weeks, I have to wait until September to go ! I was interested about your remark of the concrete on the beach, which was still there last year. I always thought these could be the concrete surrounds for the fresh water condensors as they are in the same area. Saying that it is highly likely that they are post-war. regards, Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eceabat Posted 8 April , 2007 Share Posted 8 April , 2007 HI all, the concrete blocks on the beach at the Cove are not post war and are almost certainly the foundations for the water condensors. On his web site (which is still being maintained), the late Jul Snelders had a couple of photos of the site of the condensors taken in the years after the war, with the concrete base and a wall (on which someone had written ANZAC Cove) still in place. Some of this concrete was covered over in 2005 by spoil dumped onto the cove by Turkish workers buildiing the road above but ever obliging nature washed it away in subsequent storms. I first visited the Peninsula in 1988 and the pics brought back memories of that which was but is no more. Anyone with desk top publishing skills could try and include a low retaining wall at the base of the slope leading down to the beach, as that probably is the next step in the process of trying to shore up the bodged up road. Cheers Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sullivan Posted 8 April , 2007 Share Posted 8 April , 2007 If not already known or visited - The Australian Department of Veteran's Affairs has an informative web site tucked away at the following link - http://www.anzacsite.gov.au/2visiting Also at Digger History web site some comparison photos at following link - http://www.diggerhistory2.info/graveyards/...tions/anzac.htm Sullivan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedog Posted 8 April , 2007 Share Posted 8 April , 2007 G'Day All I just logged onto the AWM collection database and in the collection search I typed in "water at anzac cove" and at the viewing records between 26-50 see AWM photo GO1784 taken in 1919. Click on more info at the bottom of the photo and read about the square concrete wall built to proct the water condensing plant. It appears to me to be in the position of the concrete column's in Mo's 1989 photo of Anzac Cove Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montbrehain Posted 8 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 8 April , 2007 Hows this for a then and now ? also taken in 89 "MO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Plummed Goose Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 a few more pics of Anzac then and now at the following links www.gallipoli.com.tr/pages/memorials_cemeteries/anzac/anzac_cove. www.gallipoli.com.tr/pages/memorials_cemeteries/anzac/anzac_ceremonial_site.htm www.gallipoli.com.tr/pages/it_is_still_there/dugouts-trenches-tunnels/anzac-trenches.htm cheers eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montbrehain Posted 27 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 27 April , 2007 Did anybody manage to do any "then and now " pictures as I requested "MO" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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