Shepherds Grove

[YAMFan]

felixdk - a chap called Linn Barringer took some photos from the top of the control tower looking out towards the runway and it shows the road running out to the runway (the one that's in your post #82 but not in #83.

The photo is on Linn's RAF Bentwaters website http://twinbases.org.uk/photos/assoc...bases/sgp2.htm and is number 17 (you'll have to scroll a bit).

Your pictures are awesome by the way.

[YAMFan]

Here's another one of the tower but this was taken from the 1958 yearbook.

SG Tower 1958 Yearbook.jpg

[YAMFan]

Again, from the 1958 Yearbook, a picture from the top of the tower looking out to the runway. I think you can just see the signal square in the background.

Tower cross training.jpg

[felixdk]

I'd suggest that the object in the corner of the signals square in YAMFan's photo, where felixdk has the arrow in his painting, is the red square with the crossbars badly folded rather than a folded arrow.

All the best,
PB

Thanks for that viewpoint, you may very well be right and considering the quality of the photos available, it may all come down to a coin toss. I'd love to get the signal square dead on as it's really a focal point of the composition and important to anyone that's interested in aviation history (me included), but it may end up being a best guess in the end.

Don

[felixdk]

Thanks YAMFan, those photos are tantalizing and I'll make some use of them.

If you go to Shepherds Grove in Google Earth (you can look for Stanton or Walsham le Willows), click the button for Historical Timeline and you can bring up an aerial photo of the area from 1945. It's not as good as the new stuff, but you can see that those roads didn't go all the way to the runway back then. There's actually very litte there in addition to the Watch Office. I've always figured that the MoD wouldn't have spent much improving the airfield after WWII and then the USAF most likely did a lot when they moved in. We do love to spend money .

[YAMFan]

Don, I lived in Stanton for the first 23 years of my life, with the first 9 of that on the caravan site which was Site 11. I think the USAF built the fire station near the tower as well as the road to the runway.

[felixdk]

Redid the signal square, it was too small anyway. The MG is painted and the Jaguar is next.

[felixdk]

Almost done. I need to add more personnel on the ground and just look at for a while before refining.

[92fis]

Looks great.

[felixdk]

Don, I lived in Stanton for the first 23 years of my life, with the first 9 of that on the caravan site which was Site 11. I think the USAF built the fire station near the tower as well as the road to the runway.

I wish that I'd had a chance to see SG before it ceased being an airfield. I wasn't based that far away when I was stationed in the UK in the '60s, but I had the usual hormone induced urges controlling me back then and history was not at the top of my list . All the available photos evidently do show a lot of USAF changes.

Thanks for the comment 92fis, I guess the work turned out to be worth the effort. I'm calling it done (subject to the usual review).