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Nostalgia gallery – week ending July 17, 2010

The aliens have landed! Not quite. In our recent supplement on wartime Shropshire we mentioned a gun turret which guarded the Free Bridge at Jackfield. Well, here it is, thanks to a photo e-mailed in by David Amias, of Shropshire Aviation Society. It was, he says, an Allan-Williams turret, of which apparently only 199 were made. "I enclose a picture of mine from the mid 1960s at the lower end of Wesley Road near the Free Bridge," he says. "Today the site is covered by an overgrown thicket. I have also found one, in similar condition, on the marshes at Cley-Next-The Sea in Norfolk."

The aliens have landed! Not quite. In our recent supplement on wartime Shropshire we mentioned a gun turret which guarded the Free Bridge at Jackfield. Well, here it is, thanks to a photo e-mailed in by David Amias, of Shropshire Aviation Society. It was, he says, an Allan-Williams turret, of which apparently only 199 were made. “I enclose a picture of mine from the mid 1960s at the lower end of Wesley Road near the Free Bridge,” he says. “Today the site is covered by an overgrown thicket. I have also found one, in similar condition, on the marshes at Cley-Next-The Sea in Norfolk.”

This picture was posted on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 at 10:18.
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The aliens have landed! Not quite. In our recent supplement on wartime Shropshire we mentioned a gun turret which guarded the Free Bridge at Jackfield. Well, here it is, thanks to a photo e-mailed in by David Amias, of Shropshire Aviation Society. It was, he says, an Allan-Williams turret, of which apparently only 199 were made. "I enclose a picture of mine from the mid 1960s at the lower end of Wesley Road near the Free Bridge," he says. "Today the site is covered by an overgrown thicket. I have also found one, in similar condition, on the marshes at Cley-Next-The Sea in Norfolk."

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