Poster panel: The 126th Company of the Canadian Forestry Corps - Ampthill 1917 - 1918. The poster features setions entitled A Need For Timber, Transporting Logs By Road Engine, The Firs - a postscript, The Sawmill at Amphill Station and in May 1916 at the request of the British Government 1600...
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Ampthill Town Council
Stencilling Tommy's Footprints
Poster panel displaying the history of the Ampthill Camp in World War One, describing key events of the Bedfordshire Training Depot - October 1914 to Summer 1916, The west park fire, 11th Duke of Bedford Funded the Camp, Rifle Drills and Ampthill Command Depot - October 1916 to March 1919.
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Ampthill Town Council
Stencilling Tommy's Footprints
Poster panel displaying the history of the Ampthill Camp in World War One, describing key events of the Bedfordshire Training Depot - October 1914 to Summer 1916, The west park fire, 11th Duke of Bedford Funded the Camp, Rifle Drills and Ampthill Command Depot - October 1916 to March 1919.
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Ampthill Town Council
Stencilling Tommy's Footprints
Poster panel displaying the history of the Ampthill Camp in World War One, describing key events of the Bedfordshire Training Depot - October 1914 to Summer 1916, The west park fire, 11th Duke of Bedford Funded the Camp, Rifle Drills and Ampthill Command Depot - October 1916 to March 1919.
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Ampthill Town Council
Stencilling Tommy's Footprints
Cover page: Stencilling Tommy's Footprints by SR. Hartley. Cover image of a road with stencilled footprints on it.
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Ampthill Town Council
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Image of St. Andrews Parish Church and War Memorial image of an old grave stone memorialising fallen soldiers.
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Ampthill Town Council
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Lights Out: Image of a candle surrounded by poppy badges. 'Walking back along The Alameda I pictured 707 soldiers in the hollow of Ampthill Park, drafting out. How long was the column What would it look like That night at 10am SIC we lit a single candle as part of LIGHTS OUT and let it burn in...
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Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, Tower of London. Image of poppies installation at Tower of London. 'On Tuesday, 5th August an opportunity presented itself. Public interest in the Poppies was growing - I was commuting into London and decided to visit The Tower. I walked briskly along the...
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Ampthill Town Council
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The Journey: The writer tells us that over a few weeks and months of jotting down ideas that he explored the idea of using WW1 boots but he expresses to us that at 200 a pair that it was unaffordable. He then tells us that stencilling seemed like the most effective way to portray Tommy's Footsteps....
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Ampthill Town Council
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Image of John Hele alongside and image of Tommy's Footprint on an escalator at St. Pancras International. Also I paragraph explaining how the writer came across these footprints which lead him to taking the photo. A few weeks later I was passing through St. Pancras International and noticed more...
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Ampthill Town Council
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In a paragraph the writer tells us that he had officially made a bid to pay the starting prices of getting the project underway of which he then acquired a photo of officers of which you see alongside the paragraph. An appeal went out for a local artist to help with sketching how Tommy's Footprints...
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Ampthill Town Council
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Four images showing The Ampthill Camp. Illustrated war news followed by an artists impression of Tommy's Footsteps June 2015 was the first time Tommy's Footprints featured in Around the Pump. Then our thoughts turned to funding and the legacy the possibility of installing some commemorative WWI...
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Ampthill Town Council
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Image of a practice method of stencilling Tommy's footsteps and the method and materials used to create it. Practice stencilling started in the August when we laid down a platoon of twenty footprints in sight of the Duke of Bedford War Memorial. We visited the spot regularly to see how the prints...
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Ampthill Town Council
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Image of calling Notice Ampthill and District News with the calling notices describing recruits arriving, New huts, Recreation leafed through the Ampthill and District News and The Bedfordshire Standard. Most of the cuttings were a column inch or two. There was talk of recruits arriving, new huts...
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Ampthill Town Council
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Acknowledgements: Thanks to the contributors and dedicated to the memory of the local men who trained at Amphill Camp and their families.
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Ampthill Town Council
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two Paragraph informing us that that there has been a reel filmed for showing in local picture houses The Blake Bros filmed a reel for showing in local picture houses, and the trenching ground in Warren Woods at Steppingley. Much of the material hadn't seen the light of day for a hundred years. I...
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Image of a gas hood worn in WW1 and alongside it an image of more practice sets of Tommy's Footprints The Blake Bros filmed a reel for showing in local picture houses, and the trenching ground in Warren Woods at Steppingley. Much of the material hadn't seen the light of day for a hundred years. I...
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Image of old news paper clipping of Ampthill recruits entering a trench in Warren Woods Steppingley In January 2016 we went in search of the old trenching ground that hugs the Northern edge of Warren Wood, Steppingley - land now dissected by Centre Parcs. Winter is the time of year to look, when the...
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Ampthill Town Council
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Image of Ampthill recruits in a firing trench at Warren Woods Steppingley In January 2016 we went in search of the old trenching ground that hugs the Northern edge of Warren Wood, Steppingley - land now dissected by Centre Parcs. Winter is the time of year to look, when the bracken and briar lie...
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Ampthill Town Council
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The Camp- By March 2016 The writer tells us that he had discovered enough about Ampthill Camp to do an illustrated talk for the Royal British Legion in Flitwick. The writer describes that he was able to engage with 70 members, he says this would be the first of many talks that would connect with a...
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Ampthill Town Council
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Images: The Camp - Ampthill Great Park The Recruits marching through Ampthill With kind permission of Bedfordshire Archives Images showing the fast landscape of Ampthill Training Camp alongside the soldiers marching in formation in full uniform though Ampthill.
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Images: Recruits are Ampthill Great Park (1915) The first draft departed Ampthill Midland Station (1915) With kind permission of Bedfordshire Archives Images showing the soldiers lined up ready for training alongside soldiers at Ampthill Midland Station on the train being deployed to France.
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Ampthill Town Council
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Image of The Duke of Bedford War Memorial, Ampthill Great Park alongside a paragraph telling us about the Bedfordshire Command Depot (1916-19). Bedfordshire Command Depot (1916-19) Wrest Park Hospital closed in September 1916 because of a major fire, and in October 1916 the Training Depot was...
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Two Images Showing paper clippings from The Bedfordshire Standard (October 1916) - describing The Bedfordshire Training Depot.