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LincolnTanker


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This link has some good aerial photos of the above WW1 trenches.

They look in remarkable condition.

http://www.webbaviation.co.uk/gallery/v/bodelwyddan/



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Fantastic. And not too far from me.

I think I once heard that there is something similar in the hills around Sheffield.

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James H wrote:

Fantastic. And not too far from me.

I think I once heard that there is something similar in the hills around Sheffield.


Yes, there was a radio program about them a year or so ago.

Here's a pdf about the Redmires trenches.

http://www.pals.org.uk/sheffield/redmires.pdf


There must have been training trenches all over the UK.


THe West and South Common in Lincoln had them. The West Common Trenches have been obliterated by the golf club. The South Common does at times show evidence of them.

 



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Brilliant stuff,it's just up the road from me, went past there last Saturday didn't have a clue they existed. Many thanks further investigation required !!!!!

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If there were no golf clubs, there would be more of everything. ARE YOU HAPPY DONALD TRUMP?! HM?! RUINING MY GRANDFATHERS DREAM?! Sorry, got a bit personal there.

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baldwin wrote:
Brilliant stuff,it's just up the road from me, went past there last Saturday didn't have a clue they existed. Many thanks further investigation required !!!!!
Ooh, get some snaps if you can. I gather they are accessible to the public. Hours of watching Time Team lead me to believe that such things can be visible from the air but not distinguishable at ground level. One can but try.

P.S. By an extraordinary coincidence* I have just had a phone call from a pal who hails from that part of the world. He tells me that the Castle is now part stately home, part hotel, part museum, etc. Nearby was Kinmel Camp, where there was something of an insurrection by disgruntled Canadian troops who felt they were not being repatriated with sufficient promptness after the War. Kinmel Camp Riots is worth a google. Several are buried in the Marble Church, apparently victims of the Spanish Flu. The theory that some were shot for mutiny is not officially supported. And this site appears to show that the trenches are extremely discernible at ground level.

http://www.bodelwyddan-castle.co.uk/ww1trenches.html

*There is such a thing.

 



-- Edited by James H on Monday 16th of August 2010 11:32:25 AM

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Will do James,there was a programme on S4C some time ago about the riots,seemed quite good.

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There are some more WW1 training trenches at Penally (Welsh spelling Penalun) near Tenby (since I've started: Dinbych y Pysgod).

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Good heavens. So there are. And, apparently, more besides.

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/268143/images/PENALLY+FIRST+WORLD+WAR+PRACTICE+TRENCHES/

-- Edited by James H on Monday 16th of August 2010 11:06:25 PM

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