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Tommy Atkins’ Accommodation

Heritage Open Day: Discover the changing conditions in which British soldiers lived in Aldershot Garrison, through a walk and talk around the buildings of the Aldershot Military Museum, which include two rare surviving examples of Victorian barrack blocks. “Tommy Atkins” was the nickname given to British soldiers and became popular in the nineteenth century. Aldershot was the first permanent training camp to be built in Britain, and it quickly became the largest and most important garrison in the country. The thousands of soldiers based here initially lived in wooden huts, then in Victorian brick barracks. These were superseded by concrete buildings in the 1960s, which have in turn been replaced by modern accommodation in the twenty-first century. Learn how the soldiers lived in the old Aldershot Camp with a guided walk around the Aldershot Military Museum, through buildings which were home to many “Tommies” from the Victorian age to the mid-twentieth century.
event dateSaturday 13 September and Sunday 14 September
venue addressEvelyn Woods Road, Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 2LG
event timesSat 13 Sep:1100 & 1400; Sun 14 Sep:1100 & 1400; Free Entry.
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