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Belmont, Upton St Leonards Heavy Anti-Aircraft Gun Site; Later an Ex-Service Camp used for housing.

This ex-service camp had been used by as the base of a Heavy Anti-Aircraft unit involved in the defence of the Gloucester/Brockworth Gun Defended Area. Belmont Camp, housed up to…

Gloucestershire Parishes and Town Councils Precepts 2025-2026

Using Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government data reported to them by District Councils the data on parish precepts issued in 2025-2026 has been analysed in different ways. A…

Imperial War Museum Sound Archive Interviews relevant to Brockworth and Hucclecote

The Imperial War Museum has an extensive archive of materials including a sound archive of 34,600 recordings of which 13,175 are available on-line. Cleary within this archive resources specifically related…

Geoffrey William Bone Imperial War Museum audio interview

In researching the defence of Brockworth Aerodrome and the Gloster Aircraft Company a number of audio interviews within the Imperial War Museum Archive have been found which might be relevant.…