Long Marston

[stevie]

Heres a few photos i took today of the control tower at Long Marston & a couple of the buildings nearby. Been past the airfield several times and i'm aware that there are quite a number of surviving buildings still standing around the site. (I actually spent the entire night on the airfield last summer during the Global Gathering dance music festival.. i was a bit to 'out of it' to notice then though )

I was a bit rushed for time and the weather was terrible today though so it was just a quick visit as i was making a quick de-tour on the way home from Stratford.


The tower area was totally deserted and silent although a micro light club operate from here.There was a fair bit of activity out on the runways with lorry and bus tuitions going on today that i noticed..




It has to be said Marston's tower could do with a lick of paint pretty soon.

Some of the other buildings situated next to the tower -



..and finally a very misty and damp look across towards the runways -


Cheers
Steve

[PNK]

How do you know it was the control tower?

[REF]

How do you know it was the control tower?

Good question PNK, maybe we should look for a sign or something that tells us what it is......

[stevie]

Oh!! We are a pair of comedians arent we?? LOL!

[Carnaby]

I'm fascinated by the curved roof building in the 'last but one' photos above.
Can't remember seeing one elsewhere, except it's vaguely similar to the one I posted here. (entry Fri Aug 8 200.

Graham

[P Bellamy]

How odd.....

A blast shelter with a roof of Stanton shelter sections.

PB

[stevie]

lets not forget of course the fact that Long Marston is YET ANOTHER airfield faced with being wiped off the map with one of the goverments "planet freindly" Eco towns!! Aaaaaaaaaaghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[canberra]

Yes all these so called "eco towns" are going to be built on old airfields. Airfields are of course out in the country, so how will all these people get to work? Exactly theyll use cars, not exactly all that eco friendly are they!!!

[PNK]

"eco" is just another marketing prefix like "e" and "i" and possibly "digital"
Boots were selling a digital hair dryer. Blasts you with ones and zeros - very effective on digital hair.

[canberra]

A digital hair drier, are you having a laugh???