Holmrook Hall was a Victorian country house, at one time owned by the Reverend Charles Skeffington Lutwidge. His relative Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as the author, mathematician and photographer Lewis Carroll, used to come and stay occasionally.[1]
During World War II, Holmrook Hall was requisitioned by the Admiralty on behalf of the Royal Navy, with locals told that its was a rest home for shipwrecked and distressed sailors. In actually fact, strategically located between ROF Drigg and ROF Sellafield, it was the Royal Navy bomb and munitions training school between 1943 and 1946, under the title HMS Volcano. Defined as a Top Secret site, it trained both Royal Navy personnel, the Special Boat Service and Norwegian expatriates in the war time use of explosives and demolition. Among the graduates of HMS Volcano were:[2]
- Noel Cashford MBE
- Lionel "Buster" Crabb OBE
Post war, the hall fell into disrepair, and was demolished. Only the stable block remains, converted to housing.
References[]
- ↑ "Holmrook Hall". Shelia Cartwright. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rwbarnes/defence/volcano.htm. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
- ↑ "Holmrook Hall". wartimememories.co.uk. http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/secret/volcano.html. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
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