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    MoD Shoeburyness is a military installation at Pig's Bay near Shoeburyness in Essex. In 1849, the Board of Ordnance purchased land at South Shoebury with...
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    established in the parish of South Shoebury, later becoming MoD Shoeburyness. A garrison town, known as Shoeburyness, grew around the barracks, taking...
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    this is designated a scheduled monument and marks the western edge of MoD Shoeburyness firing range, a restricted area. The rest was taken up in the 1960s...
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    London, Tilbury and Southend line and is near Shoeburyness station. To the east of the depot is MoD Shoeburyness and there is a rail connection into that site...
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    Road. Shoeburyness Old Ranges is closed to the public. Parts of the site were formerly part of MoD Shoeburyness. The description of Shoeburyness Old Ranges...
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  • island is now run by QinetiQ on behalf of the Ministry of Defence as MoD Shoeburyness with access to the island by non-residents subject to stringent times...
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    superintendent of experiments at Shoeburyness (aged 30) Colonel Walter Aston Fox Strangeways, the commandant at Shoeburyness and superintendent of experiments...
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    to Manchester, both withdrawn from service in 2001, then stored at MOD Shoeburyness before being purchased in 2003. They represented the Class 101 DMU...
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    home defence units". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 27 August 2020. "MOD Shoeburyness – Timeline". QinetiQ Group. Retrieved 28 July 2016. "Artillery". armedforces...
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    Southend. History Press. ISBN 9780752477015. "OLD RANGES 1849-1998". MOD Shoeburyness. Retrieved 27 August 2024. "HMS Leigh - community lead heritage and...
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    artillery testing at MoD Shoeburyness in 1920 before being put into storage at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. In 1940 it returned to Shoeburyness to be used again...
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  • picking abilities. 36 4 "Staying Aloft" Wing Commander Ken Wallis MOD Shoeburyness Hawtal Whiting British Caledonian 20 September 1983 (1983-09-20) Teams...
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    line after failing at Edgware and it was removed in 2004 and sent to MOD Shoeburyness for storage and scrapping. Another 1972 Mark I unit (3205) in the original...
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    4-car sets. The Class 308 units were withdrawn and sent for storage at MoD Shoeburyness. The final three units, nos. 308138/157/158, were withdrawn in late...
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  • sustained heavy damage in the collision, was scrapped at a remote site, MoD Shoeburyness. As of 2021, power car 43163, which sustained minor damage in the accident...
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    services to Southend/Shoeburyness via Laindon 23 services to Tilbury, 13 of which continued to Pitsea, Southend or Shoeburyness 3 services to inner locations...
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    Admiral) S.A Pears C.S.E R.N, the staff, newly recruited from Foulness and Shoeburyness, together with the experimental wing from Hythe, moved to Pendine in...
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    : 2  During this time, the nation's main artillery training area was at Shoeburyness, where the guns fired out to sea. As technology advanced and ranges increased...
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    north, the main headways are or were: Suttons Head or Kennets Head, near Shoeburyness East Beach, which fell into disuse in 1867 after the reopening of Wakering...
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    Korea. They returned to UK from Germany in 1962 and were stationed in Shoeburyness, training on the 105mm pack howitzer, prior to joining 28 Commonwealth...
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    Archived from the original on 12 November 2011. Farmer, Ben (29 July 2013). "MoD to sell WWII Tube station command bunker". The Daily Telegraph. Archived...
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    the War Office) and the War Office School of Gunnery established in Shoeburyness in 1859. When the British East India Company was dissolved in 1862, its...
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    benefitted from this exercise. The V train was scrapped at MoD Pig's Bay in Shoeburyness in 2007. While there were efforts online to acquire a single...
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    when live artillery firing was restricted to Plumstead Marshes and Shoeburyness. Immediately north of the mortar battery the Gun Park was laid out (later...
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    units were withdrawn in late 2000, and sent for storage at MoD Pig's Bay near Shoeburyness. Two of the units later saw further use in departmental service...
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    Royal Military Repository closed (much of its work having transferred to Shoeburyness). The Repository Woods remained in used for military training, however...
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    A narrow gauge Wickham trolley. The subject is ex-MOD and is based at the Amberley Museum Railway, Sussex...
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    practice came to an end in around 1873, when artillery training moved to Shoeburyness; but the saluting battery remained in operation in the 20th century....
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    Walden C Company - Billericay, Canvey Island, Leigh on Sea, Rayleigh, Shoeburyness, South Woodham Ferrers, Southend-on-Sea, and Wickford D Company - Blackheath...
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  • to Education and to the Hindu community in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. (Shoeburyness, Essex) Mrs Hazel Elizabeth Hamer. Administration Officer, Employment...
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