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Swadlincote Rifle and Pistol Club
Swadlincote Rifle and Pistol Club
Swadlincote
Rifle and Pistol Club
P.O. Box 55
Swadlincote
Derbyshire.
DE11 7ZT
Swadlincote
Rifle and Pistol Club
is situated in South
Derbyshire, in coal mining country.
Sadly the deep mines are
now long gone and the final coal has been extracted, by opencast
mining.
This might seem strange talk but the Swadlincote
ranges would not exist without the former mining
industry.
S.R.P.C was born, about 45 years ago, the vision and
brain child of our founder member Alex Blyth, who together with
Tony Sutton started the difficult task of forming a club from
absolutely nothing.
Colliery spoil was used to build the
backstop and flanking walls on the first range complex and as
membership grew the buildings were constructed by members.
Both
Alex and Tony were granted honorary membership due to their
initial contribution and both are still, to this day, active
members.
It is ironic that coal again caused a major
change within the club’s history because the old range
complex sat immediately above rich coal bearing seams which
British Coal wished to extract, by opencast mining, and so they
agreed to build a new range complex, for our members, which was
to be situated about 1 mile away from the original site.
This
is the five acre complex that S.R.P.C. now occupies, soon to be
surrounded by woodlands as part of the National Forest project,
but well positioned to grow into the future. S.R.P.C’s new
range complex opened in 1992 and currently has more than 400
members.
It is a members’ club and is managed by a
committee appointed annually by the members. All members’
subscriptions are used to pay the running costs of the club and
the surplus, carefully managed by the committee, is used to allow
planned growth of the club’s facilities, which have
increased substantially since the pistol ban, following the
Dunblane tragedy.
(C) INDELFA Wednesday 29.09.2010