Tracks to the Trenches - bang you're dead
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Tracks to the Trenches - bang you're dead
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 14 Jul 2018
The information for visitors did warn that the field gun made a very loud bang - it did! This is an 18 pounder quick firing gun and was the main armament for the field artillery in WWI with an effective range up to 5 miles (good job it was firing blanks). This example was built by Vickers in 1914 and rescued from a scrapyard in the 1980s. During the cause of the day I saw it being pulled by horses and carried on a flat wagon pulled by various locomotives.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.032859
Longitude
-2.263449