stephen binks Posted 19 May , 2005 Share Posted 19 May , 2005 Is the original Bully Grenay now called Bully Les Mines? Can't seem to locate Bully Grenay on current maps. Regards Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 19 May , 2005 Admin Share Posted 19 May , 2005 Bully Les Mines and Grenay are adjacent garden cities, its always a bit difficult around the Loos area I find. Eg there are signs to Mazingarbe on the main road, when its off the road, and the same with Haisnes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 19 May , 2005 Share Posted 19 May , 2005 Had a devil of a job locating Les Brebis last year - ended up with a"guesstimate". Very difficult finding actual places around this area. Going back later this year for another attempt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 20 May , 2005 Share Posted 20 May , 2005 Buy a decent Serie Bleu map of the area from IGN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 20 May , 2005 Admin Share Posted 20 May , 2005 Part of the IGN Bleu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen binks Posted 20 May , 2005 Author Share Posted 20 May , 2005 Having looked at old trench maps, Bully les Mines was a coron and Bully Grenay was where Bully les mines is now located. Whilst on the subject of this locality, does anybody know if the abattoir in Mazingarbe still stands? and if so where it's location is? Thanks Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 20 May , 2005 Share Posted 20 May , 2005 It was still there in 1986 when I visited it with Julian Sykes, during the research for Shot At Dawn. A very chilling place in every sense of the word; and so long ago I forget precise directions. Not somewhere I would like to go back to, to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 20 May , 2005 Share Posted 20 May , 2005 Pardon my ignorance but where would I buy serie blue maps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 20 May , 2005 Share Posted 20 May , 2005 So ignorant I can't even spell it properly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 20 May , 2005 Share Posted 20 May , 2005 You can buy them on-line at: http://www.ign.fr/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank_East Posted 20 May , 2005 Share Posted 20 May , 2005 I have just received an e mail tonight from IGN as a past customer offering 30% discount on maps and CDs from their normal prices.The offer might be open to all. I think there must be a Great War connection between the Sherwood Foresters and Bully Grenay for Ruddington a suburb of Nottingham is twinned with Bully Grenay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank_East Posted 20 May , 2005 Share Posted 20 May , 2005 I have just received an e mail tonight from IGN as a past customer offering 30% discount on maps and CDs from their normal prices.The offer might be open to all. I think there must be a Great War connection between the Sherwood Foresters and Bully Grenay for Ruddington a suburb of Nottingham is twinned with Bully Grenay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewThornton Posted 15 June , 2005 Share Posted 15 June , 2005 I have just received an e mail tonight from IGN as a past customer offering 30% discount on maps and CDs from their normal prices.The offer might be open to all. I think there must be a Great War connection between the Sherwood Foresters and Bully Grenay for Ruddington a suburb of Nottingham is twinned with Bully Grenay. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Frank Was the link anything to do with 139th Brigade of 46th Division, as the North Midlanders were in this area for a considerable period of time in 1917/18? Also, the 1st Battalion were in the area with 6th Division in the Spring/Summer of 1917, as were the 12th (Pioneer) Battalion when 24th Division served in the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank_East Posted 24 June , 2005 Share Posted 24 June , 2005 Andrew, I am not sure about the divisional linkage but I would think that if the Sherwood Foresters were part of the North Midlands Division then that would be so. Ruddington has a plaque in St Peter's Rooms indicating the twinning with Bully- Grenay,the rooms are the venue of the WFA East Midlands Branch meetings so probably a member of this branch could confirm the reason for the village's association with Bully Grenay.I have tried to find out further information about the Ruddington twinning but it may have lapsed as there is no mention of it on the Ruddington web site.The Bully-Grenay Communal Cemetery British Extension has a number of Sherwood Forester casualties interred there. According to the CWGC,the cemetery extension was used largely as an artillery burial ground and was used during the following periods: April 1916 to October 1916. April 1917 to March 1918 After the war there was some consolidation done when casualties from isolated graves from battlefields east of Bully were re-interred at the cemetery.There are well over a 100 unidentified casualties It is interesting to note how Bully-Grenay got its name.The railway from Hazebrouck to Arras ran between the villages of Bully les Mines and Grenay and the stop serving the two villages was called Bully-Grenay.British troops called the village of Bully les Mines and the British Extension Cemetery there by the double name of Bully-Grenay.The name was adopted as such by the CWGC and the name of the military cemetery became known as it is today as the Bully-Grenay Communal Cemetery Britsh Extension.To the French it is known as Cimetiere de Bully les Mines. Regards Frank East Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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