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#1 DaveR

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Posted 28 February 2012 - 06:20 PM

This photo of 11th Bn South Lancashire Regt was taken in 1915. Does anyone recognise where it is?

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#2 Ian Riley

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Posted 28 February 2012 - 06:43 PM

Bangor University CLICK (presumably the University College Bangor, University of Wales then). A Welsh speaker will hopefully come along to give it a name in the language of the gods. The lamps are still there.

Possibly all waiting for the Beatles, Mick Jagger and the Maharishi to turn up in 1967

I think the battalion was there until moving to Grantham

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Posted 28 February 2012 - 07:45 PM

This forum is amazing sometimes.  Thanks Ian.

Great photo Dave.  Good to see more evidence of the battalion's time in Bangor.

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Posted 28 February 2012 - 10:07 PM

It's the main entrance of the then University College of North Wales, Bangor (UCNW) which faces into the quad opposite the (more modern) Library.  I've gone in and out those doors many times...more to the point I've also seen that photo -or a very similar one - in the College Archives which are in the Library building.

...AND I can remember the Beatles & Maharishi coming to town (I seem to recall they were housed in Bangor Normal College, the teacher training college just down the road from here)!

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Posted 01 March 2012 - 11:02 AM

View PostLST_164, on 28 February 2012 - 10:07 PM, said:

I've also seen that photo -or a very similar one - in the College Archives which are in the Library building.
I wouldnt be surprised if all the companies and Battalion HQ had their photos taken on those steps in town.  I wonder what the archives hold?

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Posted 02 March 2012 - 06:21 PM

Looks like charabanc trip is in the offing!

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Posted 24 May 2012 - 11:11 PM

Just revisiting this topic to say that, after checking my old notebooks today, the similar photo I recalled being in the University Archives at Bangor was of "A" Company 11th East Lancashire Regiment (Accrington Pals) - not the 11th South Lancs at all.  Both battalions were billeted in the general area during February-May 1915.  

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