I have visited here quite a few times over the last eight years as fairly close to me. It’s prob my favourite original, none expansion World War Two site. It’s spead over a fair size of site with huts dotted about being taken over by nature. The remains of the huts vary with some crumbling ruins and others like the social club still reasonably intact with a bar area, fireplaces and toilets. The site is spread into several sections with the WAAF huts, the male huts, toilet blocks, shower blocks. Several big halls exist what were the social club for the junior ranks. Then the other side nearer the hall has several hall for the officers. Several blast shelters exist still and a brick water tower. Attge other side of the hall a large water tower exists made of metal, I did not get time to visit that. I wanted to get some shots on film, so took my Olympus trip with Ilford black and white 400, and my Pentax ME Super with Kodak gold 400. I did take a handful of shots on the wide angle and a load on the vintage lenses On my digital.
The hall was taken over by the MOD at the outbreak of the war and the adjoining land. Many halls were taken over during the war, the hall laid derelict for a long while and is now slowly being restored. Thehall was used for the hq of RAF 2 group command, which later became home to RAF 100 bomber support who also worked on radar jamming. It was first used to house aircrew from RAF swanton morley, their was a small grass airstrip for light planes to come in. The majority of the huts were hidden in the trees to avoid being detected by the enemy. The place would have been very top secret during the war and president Eisenhower visited the base at the end of the war to pay praise in their efforts for the help in the D day operations. Their was close to one hundred huts here and about half remain here today. For some reason no one has really visited this place, and can't find any reports on here. It's prob the largest collection of huts I have seen.
The hall was taken over by the MOD at the outbreak of the war and the adjoining land. Many halls were taken over during the war, the hall laid derelict for a long while and is now slowly being restored. Thehall was used for the hq of RAF 2 group command, which later became home to RAF 100 bomber support who also worked on radar jamming. It was first used to house aircrew from RAF swanton morley, their was a small grass airstrip for light planes to come in. The majority of the huts were hidden in the trees to avoid being detected by the enemy. The place would have been very top secret during the war and president Eisenhower visited the base at the end of the war to pay praise in their efforts for the help in the D day operations. Their was close to one hundred huts here and about half remain here today. For some reason no one has really visited this place, and can't find any reports on here. It's prob the largest collection of huts I have seen.
as it looked peaceful and I bet it bustles with wildlife at night. Me thinks not now.
