The Corporal in Oswestry in 1958. (Image: Archive.)
AS UNLIKELY as it may seem today but Oswestry played a part in Britain's Cold War defence.
In July 1958 the Park Hall military camp became home to a dummy 'Corporal'.
These surface to surface weapons were designed to carry a nuclear warhead up to 100 miles.
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The supersonic weapon weighed in at five tons and measured 45 feet.
Later in the same summer the Corporals were tested in the Hebrides and became the first such weapons to be tested in northern Europe.
Park Hall remained a military camp for many years after the end of WW1 and through WW2, finally closing in the 1970s.
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