Parish Notes
DURHAM CITY

Crimean gun in Wharton Park

Michael Richardson

Michael Richardson

There was a cannon on the Battery which had been captured from the Crimea. It was there in 1935.

Durham – the people and the place by Michael F Richardson – ISBN 1 870268 19 9 carries a picture.

A report in the Durham Advertiser 02/08/1940 states that the gun had been sent for salvage