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From: Phil Mc Carty <>
Subject: [WW1] Re: Belton Park
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:02:05 +0100


Belton Park was also the Corps Depot and Training establishment of the
Machine Gun Corps from 1915-1920.
It's near Grantham in Lincolnshire, it's in the care of the National
Trust. Last info I had was open Weds-Sun and Bank Holiday Mondays and it
was £5 to get in. Tel No: 01476 56616 (There's nothing left of its WW1
usage, save an MGC memorial on one of the gateposts erected in 1947.

(In WW2, elements of 1st Airborne Division were stationed there
immediately prior to Arnhem, also).

Phil





> Subject: [WW1] Belton Park
> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:35:44 +0100
> From: "Dave Pearson" <>
> To:
>
> I have a postcard sent by my wife's grandfather to her mother in October 1915. The address is 'Belton Park, Grantham'. I suspect he may have been convalescing after being wounded in action. Can anyone tell me what 'Belton Park' is or was, what it was used for in WWI and whether it still exists please?
>
> Dave Pearson
>
Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
> Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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