Neighbouring towns gave up their war trophies to help the Second World War effort, but Ludlow did not.
Not so Bridgnorth, and various other places, which sacrificed their trophies from the Crimean War for another war effort as an appeal went out for scrap metal during the fight against Hitler.
Old pictures show that the ancient artillery piece had a high vantage point in the grounds of the castle, the muzzle pointing out somewhere in the general direction of the River Severn. Sent to Mr J T Foxall, who was perhaps the town clerk or in a similar role, it gave an estimate of £12"to block up the cannon during operations, take out the ironwork from the horizontal beam and struts, provide new English oak beam and struts and fix same complete using the old ironwork as far as possible".
Ludlow's gun arrived by goods train in November that year, initially being put in Market Place, but being moved a few months later to near the castle entrance, where it has remained ever since. "The Crimean trophies at Bath, Cheltenham, Derby, Glasgow, Lichfield, Portsmouth, Wootton Bassett, to name just a few, were lost in this way.
Bartlett and Payne's researches reveal interesting twists in relation to Ludlow's cannon. It is a frigate's cannon which was cast in 1799, so was already over 50 years old by the time of its capture. It was cast at the Alexander Foundry at Petrozavodsk, about 300 miles north of St Petersburg. The foundry at that time was run by an Englishman, Sir Charles Gascoigne.
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