[Ceejache]

To pick up on something that Tealeaf/Doug mentioned earlier - do we know that the trenches were dug for the purpose of training the Pals eg. has it been stated by William Turner. I have never been told from older family members that this was the case (they, too, informed me it was to stop planes landing on it).

As far as the cannons that were placed there Bagpuss is correct when he says that they were melted down to provide iron for the war, there were also similar cannons that resided up at Oak Hill Park which were also were melted down (like any non-essential iron fixing were).