{"id":5693,"date":"2026-08-08T17:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-stretchers-that-became-fences-shorts-history\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:10:17","slug":"the-stretchers-that-became-fences-shorts-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-stretchers-that-became-fences-shorts-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stretchers That Became Fences #shorts #history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zMGDwQDl434?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>If you walk past THIS fence in Britain\u2026 you&#8217;re looking at a stretcher that carried a wounded soldier. \ud83c\udfe5<\/p>\n<p>And nobody told you.<\/p>\n<p>In 1939, Britain needed metal for the war. They ripped fences from every street, every park, every home. Millions of tons. For bullets, tanks, and planes.<\/p>\n<p>The war ended. But the fences never came back. So they took thousands of surplus medical stretchers and bent them into railings.<\/p>\n<p>Today, thousands of British families lean on stretchers that carried the wounded home.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfac Watch the full 40-second history breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u2b07\ufe0f CHAPTERS \u2b07\ufe0f<br \/>\n0:00 The Hook \u2014 A fence that was once a stretcher<br \/>\n0:10 Britain rips up every fence for the war<br \/>\n0:20 Stretchers become railings<br \/>\n0:30 History hiding in plain sight<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcda Sources &#038; Further Reading:<br \/>\n\u2022 Stretcher Fences of Britain \u2014 Historic England<br \/>\n\u2022 WWII Metal Salvage \u2014 Imperial War Museums<br \/>\n\u2022 Surplus Medical Equipment Reuse \u2014 BBC History<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 SUBSCRIBE for more 40-second history shorts every week!<\/p>\n<p>#History #WW2 #Britain #Shorts #HiddenHistory<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zMGDwQDl434\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you walk past THIS fence in Britain\u2026 you&#8217;re looking at a stretcher that carried a wounded soldier. \ud83c\udfe5 And nobody told you. In 1939, Britain needed metal for the war. They ripped fences from every street, every park, every home. Millions of tons. For bullets, tanks, and planes. The war ended. But the fences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150908,"featured_media":5694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}