- Contributed by听
- CSV Action Desk
- People in story:听
- Derek Barnfield
- Location of story:听
- Edge Village and Rudgehill
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4427110
- Contributed on:听
- 11 July 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War site by a volunteer from csv gloucester, on behalf of Derek Barnfield and has been added to the site with his permission. Derek fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
Edge is a very small village, but during the war it was one of the largest military tyre camps in the south west.
It was known as Paul Camp and the tyres were delivered to Stroud station by rail and ferried to the camp by both military and civivlian trucks.
Rudge Hill was the testing ground for the Churchill tanks, which were built at the wagon works in Gloucester. They travelled by their own power from Gloucester on the main roads. A large hanger was built as a repair shop. Only the base remains today.
As a child I went to see it and remember it vividly.
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