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90 - Hangar (Airfield) - B1 - MAP 4/42170
134 - M&E Plinth.
135 - General Purpose Hut - Laing.
147 - S.A.A. Hut - Nissen - 16075/40.
151 - Shooting in Butt - Earth - 3532/43.
155a - Arrester gear.
160to166 - Bomb Store 5461/40
167 - Fused Bomb Store - 5384/40.
168 - Incendiary Bomb & Pyro Store - Brick 5266/40.
169to170 - Component Store - Brick - 5384/40.
171to174 - Fuzing Points Heavy/Light - Nissen - 15363/42.
175to177 - Bomb Stores 'Q' - Travers - 4234/42.
178to180 - Incendiary - Bomb Store 'C' - Travers - ????? (5461/40 with a storage building inside).
181to184 - RU Small Bomb Stores 'C' - 4234/42?
185 - Smoke Bomb Store 'O' - 12725/40.
186 - Grenade Store 'B' - 12725/40.

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Bomb store roadway, I believe you cannot get inside now as I see a large fence and gate.

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171to174 - Fuzing Points Heavy/Light - Nissen - 15363/42.

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Plan.

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Fuzing smaller bombs.

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Fuzing a large bomb.

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Plan of a fuzing point.

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How it would have looked.

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For the WAAF tractor driver, she just has to wait for the armourers to finish their jobs.

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134 - M&E Plinth.
All the electricity would have been powered from here.

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Plan.

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Plan.

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Junction box.

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160to166 - Bomb Store 5461/40
There were four of these stores all connected by a good roadway. Quite long bomb trains, towed by a farm tractor around the bomb store roads. The road layout was designed so the tractors could drive around easy curves and on a one way system, not need to make difficult manoeuvres.

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Plan.

5461/40 store.

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Bomb train.

 

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Bomb road.

 

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Loading.

 

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Bombing up

 

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160to166 - Bomb Store 5461/40 where the road passes through, enabling the easier loading of bombs.

 

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160to166 - Bomb Store 5461/40.
The next store, interesting part here is the transition from small earth traversed stores to the larger 50ton later bomb stores. Here we have three later versions and one set of the older type.

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160to166 - Bomb Store 5461/40.
Looking inside. You can just see one of the brick abutment walls on the right.

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178to180 - Incendiary - Bomb Store 'C' - Travers - ????? (5461/40 with a storage building inside).
This would have had an earth travers around it. With the numbers, you have to forgive me here, the plan is not very clear and a lot is guise work

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Plan.

Bomb Store - travers..

Incendiary's being loaded.

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168 - Incendiary Bomb & Pyro Store - Brick 5266/40.
Three buildings with earth travers is a standard layout on this period RAF bomber stations. RAF Rufforth has the same type. As you can see from the two air photos, this bombs store is still there, in 2000 parts of the earth travers was extant and in 2022 its all gone, but the buildings still being used.

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2000 Google.

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2022 Google.

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Another drive through 5461/40 bomb store and the bomb road continuing on.

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175to177 - Bomb Stores 'Q' - Travers - 4234/42.
All that can be seen of the 4234/42 type 'Q' stores.

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Plan.

 

Unloading ramp.

Trammeling the bombs into storage and then removing them to the planes.

Trammeling on the bomb store wall.

Bomb store.

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The way out.

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Not sure what or where??

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Another not sure what or where??

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Halifax on a daytime mission.

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Runway.

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90 - Hangar (Airfield) - B1 - MAP 4/42170.
B1 repair hangar.
MAP - Ministry of Aircraft Production.

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MAP.

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This flew over, something I have always wanted to do.

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The pilot.

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