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Why Home Guard cannon proposals did not require recovering bollards

Old cannon elsewhere were considered easier to recondition than guns reused as bollards.

Question

Were there Home Guard plans in the Second World War to turn cannon used as bollards back into guns?

Short answer

No such plan is identified; more readily reconditioned cannon were available elsewhere.

Notes

No plan to make bollard guns usable again is identified. Other old cannon stood in places where they were easier to recondition. Those accessible pieces offered an alternative to recovering guns already reused as fittings.