1 The primary role of the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was the recognition and identification of hostile aircraft. With the start of the cold war and the increasing threat of ...
Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Post at Bedworth. Monitoring posts were to be used for reporting nuclear bursts and monitoring fall-out in the modern period. The post lies on the West Side of the Coventry Road
1 This Royal Observer Corps Post was established in or before December 1952 as Post 3, cluster P, 8 Group. The Royal Observer Corps was largely manned by volunteers, and ...
The site of a Royal Observer Corps Post at Bedworth established in the Modern Period to monitor and track enemy aircraft. The site was located in the area of Milton Close.
1 The site of a heavy anti aircraft installation A, title H21, first mentioned in February 1940 and part of Coventry Gun Defended Area. It was equipped with 4 x ...
The site of a heavy anti aircraft installation dating from the Second World War and identified from documentary and aerial photograph evidence. It was situated 400 metres east of Bulkington Bridge.
Between 1938 and 1945 the women of Warwickshire took on volunteering roles in their local communities to support the war effort (yes even in 1938 they knew war with Germany ...
Woodlands School
When I was three, I went to the Woodlands School. I can still remember the big red tubular rocking horse there. We used to line up for a glass ...
1 An archaeological observation for new construction works in 1995 at the Health Centre, High Street, Bedworth discovered the remains of a Second World War air raid shelter.
The remains of a Second World War Air Raid Shelter at the Health Centre, High Street Bedworth.
The air raid shelter referred to on the historic record ‘may’ have been used by the Bedworth Central C.E. Junior School which was demolished in late 1960s / early 1970s ...
