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©John Vigar
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the gate to the Military Corrective Training Centre at Berechurch Camp Colchester. This where all the Larcenous Lance Corporals and Recidivist Ratings get sent to serve their custodial sentences if found guilty at a Court Martial. The inmates are referred to as Servicemen Under Sentence, not prisoners. The MOD maintains this is not actually a prison as in civilian life many of the misdemeanours that send people here would not attract a custodial sentence. A good proportion of the alumni of this training centre are discharged back to their units and have creditable careers in the services.
©Glyn Baker
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©John Salmon
Dist:0.5km<br/>This picture shows the east end of the church and part of the newly laid garden. Apart from the Audley chapel on the north side of the church, the rest of the building is now used by a company of solicitors.
©Robert Edwards
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©John Salmon
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©John Salmon
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©John Salmon
Dist:0.6km<br/>This pasture is part of the Friday Woods complex of Military training grounds
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.7km<br/>The edge of the open army training area and Friday Wood proper.
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.7km<br/>This pasture is part of the Friday Woods complex of Military training grounds. There were discarded camouflage face paint tins on top of the feeder.
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.8km<br/>I am sure the pool to the right of the photo is where I drank from a spring as a child. The landscape has changed so much with the growth of secondary woodland that one can’t be sure. I remember the water bubbling up through the sand and running down the slope (behind the photographer) into a boggy bit that is still there hidden now among young trees.
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.8km<br/>Last time I visited this pond in Friday Wood I was about fourteen, a mate of mine managed to extract from its muddy depths several bits of military hardware for his collection including an empty magazine for an SLR (rifle). Today you would need a pick and shovel to hunt for hidden treasures.
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.9km<br/>If you had stood at this point in the early 1970’s you would have seen the spinney of Scots pines in the middle of the picture isolated in a buff sea of sand and gravel. You could have seen right through to the broad leafed ancient wood behind. More enlightened management of this army training ground like keeping vehicles to the tracks has allowed grass and finally secondary woodland to colonise what was essentially a desert (according to the propaganda that comes with Essex Water Company Bills we get less annual rainfall around here than in Jerusalem! Our water comes throughout the year they get a drenching all at once in the winter).
©Glyn Baker
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©PAUL FARMER
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©PAUL FARMER

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