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mrclark | profile | all galleries >> LONG BRANCH FACTORY >> Long Branch April 2004 tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Long Branch factory production photos | Long Branch April 2004 | Long Branch employees photo collection | Before demolition (pics not mine)

Long Branch April 2004

Back Stop?
Back Stop?		 Back Stop
Back Stop		 Water Tower
Water Tower		 Back Stop
Back Stop
Back Stop
Back Stop		 Back Stop
Back Stop		 Back Stop
Back Stop		 Telegraph or hydro line?
Telegraph or hydro line?
Telegraph or hydro line?
Telegraph or hydro line?		 Back Stop
Back Stop		 Back Stop
Back Stop		 Sound deadeners?
Sound deadeners?
Sound deadeners?
Sound deadeners?		 Water Tower
Water Tower		 Water Tower
Water Tower		 Water Tower
Water Tower
Water Tower
Water Tower		 Water Tower
Water Tower		 Water Tower
Water Tower		 Sundown at Long Branch
Sundown at Long Branch
Sundown at Long Branch 2
Sundown at Long Branch 2		 Sundown at Long Branch 3
Sundown at Long Branch 3		 Sundown at Long Branch 4
Sundown at Long Branch 4		 u42/mrclark/medium/27630957.ghost.jpg

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Ian 07-Oct-2010 00:01
I lived accross from Marie Curtis Park until 1983. As kids, we used to go to the "other side" referencing the creek to play around in the woods and sneak through the holes in the fence to get into the range area. I used to sit on the platform to study during final exams in high school. Lots of fun. Have my own patch of land now, but that was home.
Garrry Burke 05-Jan-2010 16:43
Great pictures. Those structures aren't "sound deadeners" but solid sandfilled encasements to stop bullets. The fields around this site were my play areas from 1948 to 1955. I remember days of weapons being tested from somewhere at the back of the Small Arms building. We often wandered along the lakefront directly behind the site shown here. It was safe; all these structures stopped any bullets. and yes, I have climbed that water tower. We lived directly across from the factory in a former barracks, then used to alleviate the terible housing shortage after WW2. I visited the area recently and was very upset with the graffiti. Thank you for posting these photos.
Guest 09-Mar-2008 03:04
Just got a No. 4 Mk 1 Enfield, Long Branch. Heading to the range tomorrow to try it out. Thanks for the photos.
Guest 11-May-2007 05:06
Thank you, very interesting. I still have my Longbranch .303 and use it regularly. Super Rifle. After all these years, it still has a voice.
Alan,
USA
Paul Crisp 16-Jul-2005 09:58
Very good and interesting site.
I have a longbranch No.4 (deactivated) in the uk and use it for WW2 reenactment.
Its interesting to see the people and the factory they made them in.
The ghost looks very like the negative of the girl holding the production rifle in your previous photos. mmmm
Good site
Thankyou
Paul C
UK
mrclark27-Jun-2005 08:14
http://www.project-x.org.uk/gfscontents.html
click on thumbnails for full image