Tuesday 27 May 2014

FURZE LODGE SHOOTERS HILL



 [Photographs Copyright Andy Brockman/Operations Room Archaeology:  all rights reserved]

The former Gas Decontamination Station at Furze Lodge on Shooters Hill, one of the sites recorded in the original Digging Dad's Army survey of the defended landscape on Shooters Hill, south east London, has now been redeveloped as 12 flats. 

The north approach ramp has been removed, but unlike many developments which simply demolish wartime buildings, the core of the building was retained in the new scheme and an interpretation board was added as a planning condition by Greenwich Council.

The board, pictured above, was researched and written by Andy Brockman of the Digging Dad's Army Project.

OPERATIONAL UPDATE

Digging Dad's Army team members Andy Brockman and Rod Scott are in the process of setting up a new community based project to look at the development of the defensive landscape of East Kent.

This follows a pilot project funded by Kent County Council and the Art and Humanities Research Council [AHRC] which we undertook in the Summer of 2013 with Historian Sian Edwards of the University of Sussex.

More news as the new project develops.

WARBIRDS INTO WOKS: THE STORY BEHIND THE BURMA SPITFIRES

You can see the entire "Warbirds into Woks" presentation exploring the story of the Burma Spitfires expedition and the use of Conflict Archaeology to explore this fascinating urban myth on You Tube