WWI trenches in Pollok park

The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded an education grant of £99,600 to a partnership of education bodies.

Work on the reconstructions will begin in August and will open to the public on Saturday, September 19, during Doors Open Week.

Through November 2018, the so-called “Digging-In” project will host a regular programme of public events and school visits.

Hands-on learning activities and living history events will help convey how soldiers managed life in the hostile, stressful environment of the Western Front and the conflict’s impact on communities on the Home Front.

A spokeswoman said: “The reconstructions will serve as a hub for learning about many aspects of the war: its impact on mental health; the role of women during the conflict; advances in medicine, technology, aerial photography and mapping; influences on contemporary art and literature, and the origins of the Forestry Commission.”