Eastwood Park - November 2017

Eastwood Park

I am dreadfully late with this months blog which is due to a number of reasons which I won’t bore you with here. In November I undertook a training course which took place at Eastwood Park, Falfield close to Wotton-under-Edge. This late-19th-century parkland is situated on a medieval site and was created for Lord Liverpool. The architecture of the main house is 17th/18th century in a french style which now serves as accommodation for the training site. The house was begun around 1820 by the first Earl of Liverpool, and rebuilt and enlarged around 1865. The NHS holds a number of courses here together with a number of building services courses and a few specialist training facilities.

The estate has had an interesting history. The Civilian Anti Gas School was set up at Eastwood in 1936 and during the second world war the establishment became the Ministry of Home Security Air Raid Precaution School. During this period a copy of a village straddling a street was built. In 1949 courses were on civil defence in the event of nuclear war.

The photos that follow were all shot with my new Sony A6500 with the Sony Zeiss 16-70 f4. The conditions weren’t great, very dull and overcast but the image noise was still greater than I was expecting. These have all been retouched in LightRoom.

Eastwood Park

Morning vlsitors

The Clock Tower

Grey morning