CART has now paid Country Life Images a fee to showcase 10 images of theirs on the www.coleshillhouse.com website.
The images are stunning and offer a detailed look inside the house which sadly burnt down in 1952.
The images were first published around 1919.
These images are copyright to Country Life Images.
Read more about Coleshill House here
Today CART has launched its own research sharing resource.
Working with Glasscubes.com, CART will now be able to share all its core research material with its other researchers around the UK.
Glasscubes is the most advanced collaboration and project management tool on the market and ensures all CART’s material is backed up daily using a 256 bit encryption server.
Nearly all types of file can be shared and each CART member will upload their own data to the site which they manage once it is online. They can dictate the sharing rights and can remove the file at anytime.
More info can be found on the file share page within the members only area on this site.
Well, what a weekend!
The Coleshill Uncovered project really lived up to its name and delivered.
Over the weekend more than 30 people gave up their time to help survey an area of woodland within the Coleshill estate and they were not disappointed by what they found.
Bases of Nissen huts were uncovered and some were much larger than expected. There were many small finds like fired cartridges as well as personal items like boot polish and even a cap from a toothpaste tube.
An unexpected find was a 2 inch mortar round which turned out to be live resulting in a bomb disposal team being called in to remove it.
CART member Peter Antill also found a bayonet still in it’s leather scabbard. (See Image)
All the findings of the weekend will now be painstakingly documented and a full report will be written up and presented to the National Trust in the near future.
You can stay in touch with this project by adding your name to the list here
CART would like to thank all participants and the National Trust for allowing this event to take place.
In less than 23 hours members from CART, The Ridgeway Military and Aviation Research Group, Subterranea Britannica, Great War Archaeology Group and the University of Bristol will start work surveying parts of the Coleshill estate.
The grounds are normally closed to the public and site owners, the National Trust, have granted special permission for this work after approving a detailed proposal.
Each day approx 30 people will take part in sweeping the woodland in the hope of finding small finds and other items belonging to Churchill’s secret army.
You will be able to see live images taken over the weekend and and more info on this page
We have created a new internal website just for CART members.
As membership grows, so does the demand for more features and service pages. The new members only website has its own members forum, noticeboard, discounted shop and much more.
It will also host an area that lets our members share documents and research papers.
You can join CART and see this info for only £12 a year.
Today we uploaded a new page to the site all about small arms of the Wehrmacht.
CART member Peter Antill has worked hard on this page and it is very informative.
If the Auxiliary Units had survived for longer than the duration of their ammo had lasted then they may well have used these weapons.
More here
Within three days our tickets have sold out the event we are putting on in West Sussex in March.
We will have a short reserve list so if you have missed out please email us and we will add your name.
Today tickets have gone on sale for our event at Tottington Manor in March this year.
There are only 50 tickets and some of these have already sold so please buy quickly if you want to come along.
The day will include at least three talks by experts, a book signing by Sussex Auxiliary author Stewart Angell, a single course lunch, a small aux shop, a virtual tour of the site and underground tunnels and demonstrations from Auxiliary Unit re-enactors ‘Behind Enemy Lines‘. More info on the day can be seen below. Whilst the day is open to all we would advise children under the age of twelve do not attend due to the nature of the talks and the fact people will be seated for some time.
The food at Tottington Manor is amazing andery filling. We only had a small portion but we very full.
We look forward to seeing you on March 12th.
The National Trust have now give us the dates for the Auxiliary unit walks they provide at Coleshill.
Please see our events page for more info.
Today we have published our first CIO Report for Norfolk.
Jeremy Norman is the CIO for Norfolk and his report can be seen on our members only page.
To become a member of CART please see here.