Visited with Rincewind and the sister, who we had promised we would take out somewhere as a treat. The site is big but with little going on; it's a laugh for running around and a couple of local kids have set up a few bike ramps inside yet other than that there is not a tonne left to see.
The history of the site is pretty cool, it used to have Thirty 'Dutch Barns', though some have been demolished, for storage of BL755 Cluster Bombs which were manufactured by Hunting Engineering in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. It also has/had several other storage buildings, some SNEB 68mm Rocket storage buildings and nine hardened 'Igloo' cells with filtered air supply and totally enclosed electrical supplies. Apparently these hardened units were used for storing 'unspecified' American explosives from RAF Lakenheath. This site was never used for Project E weapons, they remained in the Igloos at RAF Wittering SSA as the US Military insisted that such weapons were never dispersed. This is meant to have caused some conflict with the RAF who would rather have dispersed the V Force at times of high political tension. The site has been empty for a while, except for the occasional person trying to live in the old stores and a few big raves. The biggest one apparently had 4,500 people and the music could be heard from miles around. There is a quote from the Mercury below about it.
"MORE than 4,500 revellers took part in a three-day illegal rave at a former bomb dump near Stamford.
The party-goers descended on the site between RAF Wittering and King's Cliffe on Saturday and didn't leave until 3pm on Monday.
At the height of the party house music could be heard in Duddington, Easton-on-the-Hill and Collyweston and traffic on the A47 tailed back to Wansford." - From the Stamford Mercury
Some info about the bombs
"It housed the BL755 Cluster Bomb which was carried by offensive support and attack aircraft. Weighing 600lb, each bomb carries 147 small bomblets which scatter over an area on release. A dual-role weapon, it entered RAF service in 1972. It is designed to provide a high `kill' probability against a range of hard and soft targets. Also the 1000lb High Explosive Bomb." - Stolen from The Wombat's report so thank you for that!
Now on with the photos!
The site might have been used for biking or go-karting or something, there was laptime board up on some of the buildings
Most of the buildings are gutted and smashed up
But the grass verges make for good running about on (and falling down too!)
There are a couple of out buildings too
These are some of the barn style stores
And these were the cool igloo stores, some were sealed up tight and some had signs of people living in them! Had to explain to the sister that the grass and dirt was not only to take some of the impact if anything happened but also so that they were not as visible from above.
All in all it was a nice mooch on an overcast day, most of the decent stuff has been nicked and trashed, even the lamp posts are now few and far between
As we left found the game keeper at the gate who informed us we shouldn't be in there...ooops tut tut ... and also that quite a few cars get trashed on the road outside so to keep an eye cars.
Thanks for looking guys <3 xx
JE x
The history of the site is pretty cool, it used to have Thirty 'Dutch Barns', though some have been demolished, for storage of BL755 Cluster Bombs which were manufactured by Hunting Engineering in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. It also has/had several other storage buildings, some SNEB 68mm Rocket storage buildings and nine hardened 'Igloo' cells with filtered air supply and totally enclosed electrical supplies. Apparently these hardened units were used for storing 'unspecified' American explosives from RAF Lakenheath. This site was never used for Project E weapons, they remained in the Igloos at RAF Wittering SSA as the US Military insisted that such weapons were never dispersed. This is meant to have caused some conflict with the RAF who would rather have dispersed the V Force at times of high political tension. The site has been empty for a while, except for the occasional person trying to live in the old stores and a few big raves. The biggest one apparently had 4,500 people and the music could be heard from miles around. There is a quote from the Mercury below about it.
"MORE than 4,500 revellers took part in a three-day illegal rave at a former bomb dump near Stamford.
The party-goers descended on the site between RAF Wittering and King's Cliffe on Saturday and didn't leave until 3pm on Monday.
At the height of the party house music could be heard in Duddington, Easton-on-the-Hill and Collyweston and traffic on the A47 tailed back to Wansford." - From the Stamford Mercury
Some info about the bombs
"It housed the BL755 Cluster Bomb which was carried by offensive support and attack aircraft. Weighing 600lb, each bomb carries 147 small bomblets which scatter over an area on release. A dual-role weapon, it entered RAF service in 1972. It is designed to provide a high `kill' probability against a range of hard and soft targets. Also the 1000lb High Explosive Bomb." - Stolen from The Wombat's report so thank you for that!
Now on with the photos!
The site might have been used for biking or go-karting or something, there was laptime board up on some of the buildings
Most of the buildings are gutted and smashed up
But the grass verges make for good running about on (and falling down too!)
There are a couple of out buildings too
These are some of the barn style stores
And these were the cool igloo stores, some were sealed up tight and some had signs of people living in them! Had to explain to the sister that the grass and dirt was not only to take some of the impact if anything happened but also so that they were not as visible from above.
All in all it was a nice mooch on an overcast day, most of the decent stuff has been nicked and trashed, even the lamp posts are now few and far between
As we left found the game keeper at the gate who informed us we shouldn't be in there...ooops tut tut ... and also that quite a few cars get trashed on the road outside so to keep an eye cars.
Thanks for looking guys <3 xx
JE x
although i don"t fancy model No 2 
<3
