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    Arrow Civil Defence Training Ground Eastwood Park, Falfield, Gloucestershire 1950's.

    This is not really a UE Report, but it would have been if you were doing it in 1950
    These photos are part of the forgotten Civil Defence Corp, training ground which was located at Eastwood Park, Falfield GLocestershire.

    A bit of History:
    The Civilian Anti Gas School was set up at Eastwood in 1936. During World War 2 the establishment became the Ministry of Home Security Air Raid Precaution School. During this period, the Civil Defence Training Site was built as a copy of a village straddling a street. In 1945, the School was loaned to the South Western Police as a training centre.

    The Home Office resumed possession in 1949 to run courses on civil defence in the event of nuclear war. The war-zone was re-modelled to emulate a settlement progressively damaged by a nuclear explosion, with varying degrees of damage according to distance from the blast. The courses continued until 1968. The following year the UK's Civil Defence Corp was disabanded.
    The Home Office relinquished ownership of Eastwood Park and the site was cleared.



    Note the Fallout Shelter (Grass mound) near the Truck!



    At the junction of Pool Road!




    Nicely cleared and strategically placed rubble keeps the place clean and tidy!



    Whitewashed & sandbagged windows - typical 1950's nuclear protection!



    Nice old wrecked truck



    Today nothing remains of the Civil Defence site except these photos to remind us of what was once there
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    Default Re: Civil Defence Training Ground Eastwood Park, Falfield, Gloucestershire 1950's.

    These are briliant, this similar to the one mentioned in the "doomtown" pathe newsreel.



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