Page 1 of 1

Patcham Chattri

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:20 am
by Jenks
On a recent visit to Brighton, I took the opportunity to visit the Royal Pavilion. My main interest was the exhibition detailing the period when the Pavillion was used as an Army Hospital for the treatment of Indian soldiers wounded in WW1

http://www.black-history.org.uk/pavilionindian.asp

Those that succumbed to their wounds were cremated on the downs just outside Brighton. The Muslims were buried at the Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking.

The weather was perfect so we decided to visit the site of the Burning Ghats on the downs. It is now a war memorial and has a Chattri (Hindu for Umbrella) built where the bodies were cremated.

Image

Image


Image

Image


Image

Re: Patcham Chattri

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:38 am
by Watcher
A beautiful setting.

Re: Patcham Chattri

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:57 pm
by Ginger
Lovely .22lr 100yd range just down from there too

Re: Patcham Chattri

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:29 am
by Jenks
Ginger wrote:Lovely .22lr 100yd range just down from there too

Ginger..

Is there a Clay shoot there? we went on a Sunday morning and I could hear quite a bit of shooting going on from below the Chattri sounded too loud for .22LR.
Beautiful setting for sure.

Jenks

Re: Patcham Chattri

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:02 am
by rufrdr
Very nice and well done!

Re: Patcham Chattri

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:26 pm
by HeatherW762
Jenks wrote:
Ginger wrote:Lovely .22lr 100yd range just down from there too

Ginger..

Is there a Clay shoot there? we went on a Sunday morning and I could hear quite a bit of shooting going on from below the Chattri sounded too loud for .22LR.
Beautiful setting for sure.

Jenks
There is a gallery rifle range at Patcham and they do shoot on a Sunday so it may have been them you heard.

Heather

Re: Patcham Chattri

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:44 pm
by Jenks
Mystery solved. Thanks Heather, :good: :clap:


Jenks

Re: Patcham Chattri

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:50 pm
by Ginger
They are a friendly bunch down there and you get a good bacon sarnie too.