Village Scenes near Larkhill?

[Stoppage Drill]

Did they mention that the RFC wanted to pull The Stones down ?

[Moonraker]

You were, of course, hard at work, but another member - perhaps a gentleman of leisure - posted

 

this

 

earlier.

 

Interesting item.

Edited 15 February , 2017 by Moonraker

[Moonraker]

25 minutes ago, Stoppage Drill said:

Did they mention that the RFC wanted to pull The Stones down ?

Now thought to be a very doubtful story, but one that's impossible to disprove. Perhaps at some time or another an RFC officer remarked "Shame about those bally stones, pity we can't knock them down", but I doubt very much whether the idea got beyond that. Well before the airfield was built, concerns were being expressed about risks to the monument from military activities.

Earlier thread

 

Moonraker

[Steven Broomfield]

32 minutes ago, Stoppage Drill said:

Did they mention that the RFC wanted to pull The Stones down ?

I didn't actually see the whole piece (I was receiving something damned close to sympathy from Mrs Broomfield over an earlier injury), but I see Mr Raker has linked to a thread with a link to the piece in question.

[WhiteStarLine]

Thanks to member 'photomoose', yesterday the owner of the house below identified it as the one photographed by Sapper Eric Frost in July 1917 (post #1, photo 1).  A 1980s extension is visible on the right.  Furthermore the owner pointed out the accompanying 1917 photo (post #1, photo 2) shows the original mill and water course.  The former has been demolished and the water course had changed. 

 

 

[Moonraker]

On 14/02/2017 at 19:10, Stoppage Drill said:

1904 -05 rings a bell. The main Navvy Camp was Tin Town at Brimstone Bottom, on the road between Tidworth and Ludgershall, near Apple Tree Farm.

I'm not sure if I've previously posted an image of the camp, which appears in the background of postcard photos showing troops passing under the Ludgershall-Tidworth railway line

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Pity there don't seem to be any close-up pics of the navvy huts, nor do they appear on various pre-WWI OS maps. Perhaps they were converted to form the isolation hospital, as depicted in this 1923 map, though the navvy buildings appear to be of the left of the track, whereas the hospital is to the right.