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Searchlight training at the Kingstanding drill hall, 1938

1938 · Kingstanding Road

A man in a dark suit turns a control wheel linked by long rods to a large searchlight on a tracked mounting, watched by about ten soldiers in Territorial Army uniform and an officer with a swagger stick, beside a wooden hut, a lorry and a house. — Photo: Kingstanding Library (as credited on Voices of Kingstanding). Reproduced via Chris Hillcox, Voices of Kingstanding. · Select the picture to zoom and pan.

Searchlight training at Kingstanding Territorial Army VR, 1938.

Voices of Kingstanding’s page on the Kingstanding Territorial Army drill hall on Kingstanding Road opens with this photograph of searchlight training in 1938, the year before the Second World War.

About this place: Halfway Farm

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