When Castle was a child there still remained on the Common the remnants of old trenches dug in the heavy red clay during the first German war by members of the Inns of Court OTC, young lawyers who practised there before they went to die in Belgium or France as members of more orthodox units.
Clastle haurra zelarik, baziren oraindik herri-lurrean Lehenengo Mundu Gerrako lubaki zaharren aztarnak. Lubaki haiek buztin gorri astunean egin zituzten Abokatuen Eskolako eskualdeko zentrokoek, hau da, Belgikara edo Frantziara unitate ortodoxoagoetako partaide gisa hiltzera joan aurretik Berkhamsted-en lan egiten zuten abokatu gazteek.