{"id":4216,"date":"2012-08-29T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T11:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/?page_id=4216"},"modified":"2021-09-21T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T10:22:40","slug":"reigate-mobilisation-centre-reigate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/sites\/military\/uk-sites\/reigate-mobilisation-centre-reigate","title":{"rendered":"Reigate Mobilisation Centre, Reigate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen Mobilisation Centres were built between 1889 and 1903 as part of the London Defence Scheme. These were not planned as forts although some of them would have been armed on mobilisation. Their main function was as a store for guns, small arms ammunition, tools and other equipment required for the batteries and infantry allocated for the defence of the neighbourhood in the event of a foreign invasion. The casemates could also be used as barrack accommodation.<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/sites\/military\/uk-sites\/reigate-mobilisation-centre-reigate&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4216 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/sites\/military\/uk-sites\/reigate-mobilisation-centre-reigate\/attachment\/0002-57'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/000253-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/000253-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/000253-100x100.jpg 100w\" 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These were not planned as forts although some of them would have been armed on mobilisation. Their main function was as a store for guns, small arms ammunition, tools and other equipment required for the batteries and infantry allocated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/sites\/military\/uk-sites\/reigate-mobilisation-centre-reigate\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reigate Mobilisation Centre, Reigate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4225,"parent":4030,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4216","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2FkD4-160","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4216\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}