RAF Syerston
I have started to updated RAF Syerston
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RAF Syerston
RAF Syerston
The yellow arrows are the route that I took.
CT : Control Tower
SQ : Squash Court.
Red circle : a dispersed camp in the woodland.
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Main Gate.
A quick history:
Initially a bomber station when it opened in 1940 as an expansion period airfield with a grass field,
Vickers Wellingtons, Avro Manchesters and then Avro Lancasters.
Syerston became a training station postwar with Jet Provosts of 2 Flying Training School (FTS). until it closed as an operational station in 1976. Syerston is currently home to the RAF's Air Cadets Central Gliding School, responsible for the allocation and maintenance of gliders, and No 643 and 644 Volunteer Gliding Schools.
Some more history.
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The control tower is a Watch Office with Met Section, 5845/39 (brick) and was an Operational Bomber Station.
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Two J type hangars are now left here, one B1 & six T2's have been removed. Being a 1939 planed bomber station the 'J' type hangar was the preferred choice. It was large enough to take the heaviest bombers to date. They had six large doors giving full width opening.
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Accommodation
Most of the buildings were removed in 1997 but one H block still remains.
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Two of the heavy bomber runways and the usual KEEP OUT sign.
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Hangars
Another view of the 'J' type hangars showing offices running the full length on both sides.
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Bomber Frying Pan Dispersal
Tie downs dug up from other dispersal's and used to stop entry to this one.
On the south side of the A46 road I thought I saw a squash court as well.
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Dispersed Camp in Woodland
Circled in red on the map is the woodland of a large house where several buildings were placed. Here arrowed is a large Nissen hut (inset) 24ft span and roadways.
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Wooden Hutting
Just beside the Nissen hut is this wooden hut of RAF type. I used to own two ex RAF 1916 garage workshops in Netheravon (RAF Netheravon) and it had the same windows and woodwork as here except asbestos sheeting was used as coverings..
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A Large Concrete Base
Main picture is of a large concrete area which would have had several huts around it and inset are three pictures from inside the Nissen hut.
There were more tracks off into the wood and some more remains just above ground level but not much more.
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© 2013 Richard Drew