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Stowe's
Wartime Architecture

As part of the Stowe at War events, Harry & Edna identified wartime architecture still within Stowe's grounds.

The images opposite where taken in 2004 and include;

  • The entrance to one of the remaining air raid shelters.
  • One of the surviving wartime Nissan huts. Built by the army to store equipment for use on D-Day. The huts are mentioned in "Army at Stowe".
  • The firing range used during the war by the Home Guard later used by the Schools Army Cadets.
  • The last remaining  bomb crater mentioned in Stowe's wartime history.
  • Queens Temple, Stowe's archaeologist said there was a shooting range in front of the steps to the Queens Temple. When he excavated the base of vertical sleepers & blanks shells were found.
  • On the boarder of the parkland a POW camp was built. The site is now a dogs home but some of the POW buildings are still intact.

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