EPW010750 ENGLAND (1924). Cambridge and Red Barracks and the River Thames, Woolwich, from the south, 1924. This image has been produced from a copy-negative.
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| Title | [EPW010750] Cambridge and Red Barracks and the River Thames, Woolwich, from the south, 1924. This image has been produced from a copy-negative. |
| Reference | EPW010750 |
| Date | June-1924 |
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| Place name | WOOLWICH |
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| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 542748, 178660 |
| Longitude / Latitude | 0.056282583087054, 51.488361435724 |
| National Grid Reference | TQ427787 |
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John W |
Tuesday 3rd of May 2016 08:59:36 PM |
| Red Barracks. My father worked here in a drawing office soon after the start of WW2, until they were moved to the relative safety of Middle Park School towards Mottingham.
He recounted what would probably now be called an 'urban myth' about the barracks in that the plans for this barracks and for a hospital to be built in India were accidently swapped. Certainly the building with its blocks linked by a spine with very wide corridors did have the air of a hospital! |
John W |
Tuesday 3rd of May 2016 08:58:58 PM |
No urban myth but nothing to do with confusion over a barracks and a hospital in India. Red Barracks was formerly the Royal Marines Infirmary adjacent to Cambridge Barracks which was the home of the Woolwich Division, Royal Marines. The Military Store Department moved into the renamed Red Barracks in 1869. The Barracks also became the home of elements of the Artillery College, later the Ordnance College. |
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