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Originally Posted by susie123

Earlier than that!

At last here is my pic, four cannon/s on the Coppice, from a postcard postmarked September 1912. Printed/sold by Constantines Stationers of Accrington.

Here is also another link to the guns in Corporation Park. They came from the Crimean war - is the same true of the Accy cannons?

Explosion in the Park

If you look at the size & width of the wheels & the carriages, they are ship or garrison cannons. The horse drawn cannons used in the Crimea had diferent carriages and limbers. If you want to see a realistic view of cannons used on ships see the film Captain & Commander when they do gun drill, dammed good film, based on the life of a real Captain & Commander.
Note the eye on the breech end of the cannon for the recoil ropes to reeve through
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