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HMS Ganges, in Shotley Gate ... Homes and Galliard Homes plan to build almost 300 homes, external on the site and include the restored mast within the development. A photograph of the base ...
View of the HMS Ganges site Between 1905 and 1976 around 150,000 recruits passed through the gates of HMS Ganges, which became known for its high standards and tough training regimes. To ...
The HMS Ganges site was initially opened in 1904 acted as a boys training facility for the Royal Navy. The site was closed in 1976 and was used as a maaried quarter estate by the RAF. A planning ...
Major plans for an derelict historic south Suffolk naval site are set to be discussed after more than 100 objections were raised. Haylink Limited’s plans for the former 23.6-hectare HMS Ganges ...
"The response included an assurance that the demolition process would go ahead, but that an alternative site may be provided for a new, smaller pool." The HMS Ganges site became a police training ...
Plans for a derelict historic naval site will be discussed after more than 100 objections were made. Haylink Limited's plans for the former HMS Ganges naval training base in Shotley Gate near ...
Over the years I have written a lot about the boys' training establishment HMS Ganges at Shotley Point near ... closing as the developers who own the site want to build flats all along the ...
Two weeks ago I reported on the state of affairs at Shotley near Ipswich, the former home of the boys' training establishment HMS Ganges ... to be moved off the site. The company which ...
The 143ft tall mast on the HMS Ganges site at Shotley Gate has been there for over a century and was the centrepiece of the establishment which was an offshore training base for Royal Navy recruits.
JW Curtis writes from Lincolnshire: "I am searching for old boys, scattered far and wide, who joined HMS Ganges, Shotley, Suffolk, on October 8, 1957 as members of the Collingwood Division 352/361 ...