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Lancashire / Re: Old map expert required Heaton Park Manchester
« on: Monday 18 July 22 23:01 BST (UK) »
The range was a short pistol one. Probably between 10 and 20 yards long and is situated in the valley between what we called the Golly pond and the Blackfish pond by the golf course. The butts are short, only about 5 targets long and are on the side of the valley nearest the golly pond. We used to dig bullets out to use in our catapults in the 1950's and early 60's. Just further along the path is a highly contaminated small patch of ground where all the .22 lead bullets were dumped and there was a mound of really corroded ones there when I was a kid.
That area was well cleaned out by the RAF before it was returned to Manchester corporation but metal detectorists still find fragmented bits of old mills 36 grenades in that section of the wood.
Not much left there now
That area was well cleaned out by the RAF before it was returned to Manchester corporation but metal detectorists still find fragmented bits of old mills 36 grenades in that section of the wood.
Not much left there now