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Old 13-06-2012, 19:42   #8
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Re: The Coppice 'Gun Carriage'

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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson View Post
I'd like to see a restoration project being undertaken.
If I'm not mistaken those 3 Cannon/Cannons were put on the Coppice from Oak Hill Park, when the War Memorial was built, I remember sitting on the barrel of one of them before the war, then when the panic started at the outbreak of WW2, we weren't allowed up the Coppice for ages, whilst they were digging those ditches to stop Jerry invading, (look on Google Earth & theres the outline of over 2 dozen), the cannons vanished, but the wooden carriages remained. Whats the point of such a restoration, if you put it on the Coppice, the local yobbery will just smash it up, you could put it outside the market for the local drunks to sit on.
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