STRANGE but TRUE

There are several fences around parts of England made from World War 2 stretchers. In the months leading up to the war in 1939, the UK government made more than 600 000 stretchers with steel frames supporting a wire mesh, to carry the wounded off the battlefields. When the war ended, they were repurposed to replace fencing that was lost in the war. Today the so-called “stretcher fences” can be found in places such as Peckham, Brixton, Deptford, Oval and East London. An organisation called the Stretcher Railing Society has begun a process of mapping them all. See stretcherrailings.com