![LEFT Belhus Park from above. The photograph from April 1944 [TOP] shows a military camp located on the parkland. This housed troops preparing for the D Day invasion. By May 1946 [BOTTOM], a larger camp with regimented rows of tents is visible.](https://i0.wp.com/the-past.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/post-1_image0-24.jpg?fit=768%2C577&ssl=1)
Aerial photography reveals wartime role of Belhus Park
Visible in the photograph are more than 300 small circular bell tents, most likely soldiers’ accommodation.
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A landscape through time
Last year, Historic England archaeologists used ground-penetrating radar to confirm the remains of Tudor and Jacobean formal gardens at Belhus Park in Thurrock, Essex, the site of a manor built in the medieval period and rebuilt in the 16th century.…
Alchester: in search of Vespasian
Eberhard Sauer reports on the incredible discovery of a tombstone in Alchester, Oxfordshire; and not just any tombstone, but one which could rewrite the history of the Roman invasion and conquest of Britain.