Memory blocked

Claire Daly in her Heritage article (22 May) mentioned the rows of anti-tank concrete blocks erected on the East Lothian coast.

Shortly after the war ended I was on a family holiday in Belhaven and I well remember, on a number of occasions, watching a gang of German prisoners of war dislodging the concrete blocks and pulling them over with ropes. I presume the blocks would then be lifted by crane on to a lorry and removed. I also remember my father giving me cigarettes to pass on to the Pows, who in return gave me German badges and buttons. I was very proud of my collection held in a small tobacco tin. It still rankles that the tin went missing in a flitting many years ago.

BILL DREW

Cairn Road, Kirriemur