Title

War shelter at Pendennis Castle, Falmouth, Cornwall, 1998

Caption

War shelter at Pendennis Castle, Falmouth, Cornwall, 1998. A reconstruction of the World War I shelter, with hammocks for the soldiers slung from the ceiling and a meal of stew served out on the refectory table. Pendennis Castle was begun in 1540 as part of Henry VIII's defence of the south coast, and continued to serve as a military base until World War II.

Date

1998

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19A78_489

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

49,9Mb (1,4Mb) / 16,2in x 11,9in / 4874 x 3580 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings England interior indoors meal castle shelter color colour bench Cornwall table fortification war century hammock inside furniture urn first world war wartime concept stove falmouth Nineties World War I WWI World War One 20th century refectory English Heritage 1990s 1st World War decade Pendennis Castle TGN WW1 photograph N Corrie Corrie N photograph