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When the World's Armies Came to Salisbury Plain

Dan Snow's History Hit

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The Cinnema and the Steps

We're going to walk a little bit south on green drove to where the cinama was, right next door to the station. It was fairly big cinnema, sort of, maybe 50 people could have sat in it. And they showed all the very latest films, fattiarbuckle and mary pickford and charlie chaplin - for the soldiers to look at. There were steps leading up to it, and those steps are still here, although the cinnema has gone. The bungalow is called the steps. So we've come to some red brick steps now, a few plants poking through, ag lichen on them. These, you think,

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