pounds 1m visitor centre will salute toll of the Battle of the Somme

From: The Independent - London | Date: November 11, 1999| Author: John Lichfield in Paris | Copyright information

A HIGH-TECH visitor centre will be built on the Somme, the first official centre of its kind on any British battlefield of the First World War, and close to the celebrated Lutyens-designed memorial for the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval.

The funds will be raised privately in Britain, from France and the EU, and the centre will include classrooms for visiting school parties, interactive displays of the battlefield and a data-bank helping visitors of all nationalities to trace where r...

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