Construction workers, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase

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Date:1915

Description:The workers came from far and wide to build the Camps and some were later conscripted and trained there when the volunteer numbers started to dry up in 1916. The military railway was now being used to transport the workers to the Camp and they would have had the allowance for walking to their place of work stopped. The rear of this photograph states that these workers were going from Hednesford to Rugeley Camp on the "Tackeroo Express". It is difficult to locate the precise location of this image but the actual route of the military railway can still be traced on Ordnance Survey maps in places, especially if compared with the recent LiDAR Survey results of the scan of Cannock Chase This has shown extensive archaeological remains of the Camps as well as other new discoveries.

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Source: Mr Jake Whitehouse

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