I visited this while on a visit to family back in my home village of Sandridge, Herts.
when we were kids we used to spend most of our spare time in these woods doing stuff that kids do,
i remember digging bullets out of the backstops and building camps in the target pit.
dont know much about the history of the place, it was just always there, unfortunately most of the generation that would remember it in use have all passed on now,ive tried to research it through the Internet
but turned up very little except a reference to the bedfordshire regiment.
I believe it fell into disuse in the 50s and my older brother remembers convoys of army trucks driving up the track to the woods.
sorry if the photos seem a bit boring and not show much but this is whats left and i feel it needs recording
pistol range
http
://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll246/ricasso_2008/001-10.jpg
rifle range target pit
rifle range back stop
seriously heavy duty cast pole
firing pits
when we were kids we used to spend most of our spare time in these woods doing stuff that kids do,
i remember digging bullets out of the backstops and building camps in the target pit.
dont know much about the history of the place, it was just always there, unfortunately most of the generation that would remember it in use have all passed on now,ive tried to research it through the Internet
but turned up very little except a reference to the bedfordshire regiment.
I believe it fell into disuse in the 50s and my older brother remembers convoys of army trucks driving up the track to the woods.
sorry if the photos seem a bit boring and not show much but this is whats left and i feel it needs recording
pistol range
http
://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll246/ricasso_2008/001-10.jpg
rifle range target pit
rifle range back stop
seriously heavy duty cast pole
firing pits
