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Even today it is still possible to find evidence of Stowe's wartime history.


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Stowe at War

Marguerite Pattern OBE

Wartime Stowe School

Army at Stowe

Buckingham Home Guard

Stoics memories

Wartime architecture

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The pictures above show an entrance to one of the remaining air raid shelters.

One of the surviving wartime nissan hut. 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.

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The picture on the left shows the last remaining  bomb crater mentioned in Stowe's wartime history.

Stowe's archaeologist says there was a shooting range in front of the steps to the Queens Temple. When he excavated the base of vertical sleepers & blanks shells where 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 as seen in the right hand picture.