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The Aerodrome had 14 sites altogether and 12 of them were dispersed Domestic sites, around the area to the south west of the main gate. About 450 buildings in this area, most were N - Nissen huts and the other type TB - Temporary Brick.

Nissen hut 16ft.

Temporary Brick hut.

& bicycles were needed to get around.

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  3 - Communal.
  4 - Accommodation.
  5 - Accommodation.
  6 - Accommodation.
  7 - Accommodation.
  8 - Accommodation.
  9 - Accommodation.
10 - W.A.A.F. Communal.
11 - W.A.A.F. Accommodation.
12 - Sick Quarters.
13 - Defence.
14 - Sewage.

Beech House Officers Mess site 3.

W.A.A.F. ablutions.

One of many accommodation Nissen huts 1420/41 type.

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Defence No.13. site.
Entrance.

Bofors gun.

Twin Lewis gun position.

 

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Defence No.13. site.
479 - Senior N.C.O.´s Accommodation -   N - 12404/41.
483 - Sergts. & Airmen´s Ablutions         - TB - -----------
495 - Latrines                                            - TB - 6504/42.

479 - Senior N.C.O's Accommodation - N - 12404/41. Something like this one.

Ablutions block..

Latrines - TB.

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Site No.9.
Officers Quarters.

 

 

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Site No.9.
379 - Picket Post                                      -  N - 12404/41.
405 - Officers Ablutions & Drying room    - TB - 5687/42.
404 - Officers Quarters                            -   N -2965/42.
There were 18 2965/42 type Nissen huts for Officers Quarters here.

TB ablutions.

Water tank in the brick tower.

Quarters.

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Site No.9.
Temporary Brick foundations. It could have been the Ablutions - TB - 5687/42.

It could have been the Ablutions.

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Site No.9.
Ablutions and Bath House.

Sink and stand made in concrete.

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Site No.9.
Stanton air raid shelter, the plan des not show shelters on it, but for every shelter you find, multiply by about 30. and you get the amount of people that were accommodated in the area. Here I photographed about four, so that make about 120 people.

The concrete parts of the shelter being bolted together.

 

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Site No.9.
Stanton air raid shelter escape. This would have had a thin steel, hinged man hole cover. If the main entrance was damaged, then this would be the way out.

Escape with hinges still in place.

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Site No.9.
Blast shelter in the distance. This whole area would have had black Nissen huts littered around. Randomly placed and not in rows to aid camouflage and dispersion.

Blast shelter plan 2360/41.

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Site No.9.service
Stanton shelter, for every sheer multiply by say 32, and you then have the amount of service personnel that would been accommodated on that site. Its a a rough figure/rule of thumb. On some sites all the shelters can be extant, but no buildings to be seen. One I have visited, had ten shelters in one field, making about 320 personnel on the site.

Stanton shelter under construction.

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Site No.9.
M&E plinth bringing power into a site where electricity can be tapped off in an emergency. If mains power went off, the generators in the Standby set house, would start up and distribute power through armoured cables underground and any building of importance would then be connected.

M&E plinth plan.

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Site No.9.
M&E plinth.
The steel frame held a distribution box.

Plan.

Probably the connection fittings would have looked like this one.

The armoured cable.

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Site No.9.
Stanton shelter showing the escape this end and entrance the far end.

Stanton inside.

Stanton escape, a steel plate door would hinge here, like a flap.

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Site No.9.
Gradually filling up with undergrowth.

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Site No.9.
Blast shelter 2360/41.

Plan.

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W.A.A.F. Site No.11.

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W.A.A.F. Site No.11.
453 - Fuel Compound - B - 9108/41.
462 - Emergency Water Supply tank.

Plan of a 9108/41.

Coal.

Emergency water supply, a brick walled concrete lined tank. filled with water and an emergency pump could use it if there were local fires.

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Fuel Compound - B - 9108/41, constructed with low brick wall, a wire mesh and barbed wire fence. The defensive look of it with barbed wire was NOT warlike, it was to keep thieving airmen from stealing coal for extra warmth (or selling it on the black market).

Plan of 453.

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W.A.A.F. Communal Site No.10.
This may be : -
435 Dinning Room and Sergeants Mess - N - 1264/41.

W.A.A.F.'s.

 

 

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W.A.A.F. Communal Site No.10.
This may be : -
435 Dinning Room and Sergeants Mess - N - 1264/41.
The plan is mine is to show what it may have been like.

 

Double entrance doors.

Sergeants mess fire place with art on the wall.

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W.A.A.F. Communal Site No.10.
Hut bases.

How it may have looked like.

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W.A.A.F. Communal Site No.10.
Base of a hut with a breather vent in the wall.

 

Air-raid warning.

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