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Ww1 Buildings Investigated
- Thread starter Astoness
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This is now a Heritage Lottery funded project ‘Hidden First World War Heritage of the Lickey Hills’. The aim of the project is to record and research buildings on Bilberry Hill in the Lickey Hills Country Park that date from the Great War.
If you would like to find out more there is an open weekend at the site on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th September 2017 between 11am and 4pm - where guided walks of the site will take place. There will also be lots of other historical info on the Lickeys and surrounding area on display.
The site was known as the Bilberry Hill Gun Proof Range and was established in late 1917. There is a set of Bylaws dated 1st November 1917 when possession of the site was taken under the Defence of the Realm Act.
For those of you familiar with the Lickeys Hills the site is around the Visitor Centre at the end of Warren Lane (B45 8ER). There are buildings immediately outside the centre and in what was once the park’s wood yard just over the road (in the quarry area).
The project is trying to establish
· Which regiments(s) were based on the site?
· Were there supporting civilians?
· What were they actually doing? – we can speculate that they were testing guns and/or munitions.
· Where did the items being tested come from? – The Austin Motor factory was only a couple of miles away and produced both guns and munitions during WW1.
· Who built the supporting buildings, and to what design?
· Where were the building materials sourced from?
The team are appealing for any information on the above, including
· Family stories and memories concerning the site
· Photos of the site – from any period (at least one of the now demolished buildings was still there in the early 1980s).
If you have any information that could help with this research please contact Jill Harvey at The Lickey Hills Local History Society - tel: 0121 453 5838 or email: [email protected]
If you would like to find out more there is an open weekend at the site on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th September 2017 between 11am and 4pm - where guided walks of the site will take place. There will also be lots of other historical info on the Lickeys and surrounding area on display.
The site was known as the Bilberry Hill Gun Proof Range and was established in late 1917. There is a set of Bylaws dated 1st November 1917 when possession of the site was taken under the Defence of the Realm Act.
For those of you familiar with the Lickeys Hills the site is around the Visitor Centre at the end of Warren Lane (B45 8ER). There are buildings immediately outside the centre and in what was once the park’s wood yard just over the road (in the quarry area).
The project is trying to establish
· Which regiments(s) were based on the site?
· Were there supporting civilians?
· What were they actually doing? – we can speculate that they were testing guns and/or munitions.
· Where did the items being tested come from? – The Austin Motor factory was only a couple of miles away and produced both guns and munitions during WW1.
· Who built the supporting buildings, and to what design?
· Where were the building materials sourced from?
The team are appealing for any information on the above, including
· Family stories and memories concerning the site
· Photos of the site – from any period (at least one of the now demolished buildings was still there in the early 1980s).
If you have any information that could help with this research please contact Jill Harvey at The Lickey Hills Local History Society - tel: 0121 453 5838 or email: [email protected]
