Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase

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Date:1916 - 1918 (c.)

Description:This is an excellent image of the Camp and shows many of the features within it. The lighter coloured huts at the front left of the main block of buildings are the Ablution W. C.s and Urinals. The hut in between the rows at the front is the Bath House. In fact they were shower blocks and in the centre of the hut is the water tank above, with 20 cubicles each side. The troops did not have regular showers according to some of the reports home but that may have not been unusual for the time. Most would have still had the tin bath in front of the fire and had never seen a shower.

In the middle of the image is what appears to be a trough leading down the side of the hill. The engineers that built the Camp needed to cater for the excess rain water and you can still find to this day some of the concrete open storm drains crossing the paths on the eastern slopes of Old Acre Valley. At the bottom right of the image are the ends of the Officers' Huts for "L" Lines.

As in this image, there was usually a figure at the front of most of the postcards which may have been to give the image a sense of scale.

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Donor ref:13_043r (215/36478)

Source: Mr Jake Whitehouse

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