Ogbourne St George Army Camp,(visited 1978) 2013

[klempner69]

Another joint effort, way back in 1978.Many thanx Paul for all your effort in restoring these pics.This camp was used to train up the 17th Airbourne Division,then in feb 1944 the 5th Armoured Division arrived too.Used to bring my air gun up here and practice till the real Army came in 1977 and used the place for Northern Ireland training.Sadly,our playground was cleared in 1980,but the rifle butts remained for a few years after..oh for a revisit to these places with the kit we own now eh...

Rifle Butts

The Butts

That was Ogbourne Camp folks...get a time machine,and the place is all still there!!

Thanks for looking

 

[skeleton key]

All part of our military past now long gone cool to see some locations like these

What a playground to have :cool2:

 

[Perjury Saint]

Proper retro... PARKERS N FLARES!! :cool2:

 

[BadBatz]

Thats ace.

The pics are so nice, makes me laugh that loads of explorers spend HOURS trying to make their pics look like them! LOL!

 

[Scattergun]

Vintage urbex! Love it, some really lovely shots. That's a proper step back in time.

 

[Crash4563]

My grandad was there from 18th to 19th April 1963 with TA they went from there to RAF Lyneham to Cyprus it was used by Gurkhas as a transit camp they called it Butlins of Army.