Pics for Peter Laidler (Ex REME Barracks)

Think the Pics say it all , but thought I,d explain to the wider audience, this was the site of a former REME Barracks in West Derby, Liverpool.
I mentioned it in a PM to Peter, it was regarding bayonets, My two oldest brothers served there apprenticeship there as Mechanics, and always said the old broken or scrapped SLR bayonets made excellent scrapers.

Maybe the Enfield forum but a lot of them would of passed through here at some stage in there lives. The barracks had been there a long time.

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...DSCF3888-1.jpg

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...DSCF3890-1.jpg

The Last one shows the remains of the outer perimeter fence this I can remember as a kid stretching for miles, the houses weren,t there at the time.

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...DSCF3891-1.jpg

Thanks for that Big Boy! I'd like to think that the fence and barbed wire were for keeping the local girls OUT during the evening and boring weekends as opposed to keeping the blokes IN!

I take it the Barrack side was where the houses are? If it was, then the fence is deffinatly there to keep the lads in cos its built back to front compared to our perimeter fence (Although I'm told our fence is to keep people out but maybe there hiding somthing)

OK, what the heck is "tesco"?? When did the commercialization of the military property begin and what was the last year the barracks was engaged in actual arms repair? I have heard virtually nothing remains of Fazakerly, BSA,Maltby. Is ANY new centerfire commercial or military rifle still made in Jolly Old England?

Tesco is a supermarket.

Tesco is also here in teh USA now. AT least in CA

I actually like Tesco shopping there while on holidays in the UK and Europe but am dismayed they knocked down a historical site to build one...sacrilegious!

Actually sat beside the man in charge of security/loss prevention for Tesco in Europe on a flight to Krakow, great guy of course as he was ex Royal Marine and Gulf War Vet.

Tesco is a large supermarket chain which is presently one of the biggest players in UK food distribution. It also has branches in Ireland, and some in continental Europe. Its rival Sainsbury's distribution warehouse occupies the site of the Waltham Abbey explosives factory. The Enfield Lock site is largely occupied by a housing estate with such names as Martini Drive, Colt Mews, George Lovell Drive and Sten Close

That's progress.

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Originally Posted by Mk VII

Tesco is a large supermarket chain which is presently one of the biggest players in UK food distribution. It also has branches in Ireland, and some in continental Europe. Its rival Sainsbury's distribution warehouse occupies the site of the Waltham Abbey explosives factory. The Enfield Lock site is largely occupied by a housing estate with such names as Martini Drive, Colt Mews, George Lovell Drive and Sten Close

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The Site of the London Small Arms Company LSA in Bow East London is now an Industrial Estate called Gun Warf, the side Street is still called Gun Makers Row.