Peplow / Childs Ercall / HMS Godwit II

[NJR]

A few pictures of the remains of RAF Peplow:

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t145/ryan7480_bucket/Fri30thSat31stMay2008391.jpg

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t145/ryan7480_bucket/Fri30thSat31stMay2008394.jpg

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t145/ryan7480_bucket/Fri30thSat31stMay2008398.jpg

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t145/ryan7480_bucket/Fri30thSat31stMay2008401.jpg

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t145/ryan7480_bucket/Fri30thSat31stMay2008403.jpg

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t145/ryan7480_bucket/Fri30thSat31stMay2008404.jpg

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t145/ryan7480_bucket/Fri30thSat31stMay2008406.jpg

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t145/ryan7480_bucket/Fri30thSat31stMay2008407.jpg

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t145/ryan7480_bucket/Fri30thSat31stMay2008412.jpg


The rest can be seen here

http://oldairfields.fotopic.net/c1527444.html

NJR

[Blackadder]

Taken 2009

http://i583.photobucket.com/albums/ss276/anon240577/Peplow2009MOD.jpg

[broccoligarden]

Hello all, great site, we have bought a WW2 billet, thought to be used for communications. We are currently renovating it and fingers crossed will be living in it by the end of the year! I'm hoping to contact the MOD this week to see if they have any old plans or interesting info on this area, has anyone had any luck contacting them or know of any other routes that may have results?
This week we have dug the footings and its amazing to see how many cables we have found, large coaxial cables that originate in the billet and then go off into a field?? certainly sparks your interest.
We would love any info on this area that you guys might have, or any ideas of how to get hold of any, especially old pics of airfield in action or old plans.
If i find anything i will post it up here
thanks all :-)

[Carnaby]

Welcome to AiX, broccoligarden -what an interesting purchase.

Wondered where it was? some of our members will have a site plan and may be able to assist.

I note that RAFM Hendon has 'Airfield Site Plan - Peplow, 1756/45',

see THIS (http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?393-RAFM-Airfield-Site-Plans-Parts-1-2-amp-3-%28In-Stock%29)

Graham

[Carnaby]

In 1984, Scapa produced a dissertation entitled 'Industrial Archaeology of Aviation in Shropshire' Under this airfield he wrote:

However perhaps the most unusual and spectacular surviving structure at Peplow airfield today is the former sewage treatment works'. Located to the west at SJ233651 , in a dip in the landscape, the filter beds were supplied by the main sewer pipe from a higher level - the pipe emerges from the hillside some distance away but is then supported across the intervening gap by means of more than fifty brick piers almost giving the impression of a small viaduct.The NGR should read 651233, and the location is here (http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=52.80623789728178&lon=-2.51811146736145&gz=18&oz=8&gt=1).

Wonder if anything remains?