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==== *17 1851-1888: Reilly 300 yard Shooting Range FOOTNOTES/ANNOTATION =====

*17 1851-late 1880's: Reilly 300 yard outdoor Shooting Range:

. . . . .*17a Crystal Palace 1851 Advertisement for 300 yard range:


. . . . .*17b 1882 "Modern Sportsman" - but other ads continued until 1888. (Note mention of the "Hurlingham weight" - Hurlingham, the principle pigeon shooting club, limited pigeon guns to 7lbs 8oz beginning 1883)


. . . . .*17c Shepard’s Bush: 02 October 1875, "Illustrated Sporting News"


. . . . .*17d Wood Lane range:

. . . . . . . . .*17d(1) 1841 map - Wood-Lane, Shepard’s Bush was open country for years:

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. . . . . . . . .*17d(2) It began to be built up when the Wood Lane station was opened in 1863. There is a long history of rifle ranges being in the area: "A gunmaker of Bond Street owned a shooting range provided with an iron stag which ran backwards and forwards on rails. Purchasers would test their guns on this stag.."


. . . . . . . . .*17d(3) 1867 Print of pigeon shooting range at Shepard’s Bush:


. . . . . . . . .*17d(4) In 1879 the military took over Wormwood Scrubs just off Wood Lane just north of Shepard’s Bush. They had ranges there but were forbidden to build structures other than the range bunkers. Sometime in the 1890's the maneuver area was guaranteed to remain open to the citizens of the neighborhood.



. . . . . . . . .*17d(5) The buildings at Wormwood Scrubs is now a pub called "The Pavillion." The pub was built in 1861 as “The Rifle Pavilion,” named after the surrounding rifle ranges where volunteer units trained:


=== *17 1851-1888: Reilly 300 yard Shooting Range END FOOTNOTES/ANNOTATION ====