Battle Headquarters

[CDP]

The audit thread for BHQ's is located here:
http://www.airfieldinformationexchan...s-%28Extant%29

[tigger]

Stretton (HMS Blackcap)

[outkast]

had a nose around a few airfields yesterday,
Kingscliffe


Polebrook


Warboys


all were in reasonable condition but as is usual with these the bottom level was flooded.

Next to the one at Warboys is a low roofed bunker with what looked like and escape hatch at one end, anyone know what this was used for, I have not seen one on an airfield before


Also do not trust the Defence of Britain overlay for google earth to much as we found that the placemark for the BHQ at Polebrook was inaccurate, as was the one for Warboys, we also looked for the BHQ at Little Staughton, either the placemark was again wrong or it has been demolished as we could find no trace of it there.

If anyone is thinking of taking a look around Kingscliffe be very careful for 2 reasons, When we were there we were stopped by the farmer who told us there were people in the hides that are scattered around the site, they are shooting deer with high power rifles, also a bird scarer has been placed in the top level of the tower, it went off when we were outside and nearly deafened us, I would hate to think what it would have done to our eardrums had we been in the building.

I took loads of pics of the airfields we visited and have loaded them in here
http://gs109.photobucket.com/groups/n56/GYZUKMUF4V/

scroll down to bottom of page

Cheers, Dave

[tigger]

Seighford

[jason]

West Raynham, Norfolk. Extant, Sealed ?? Lat: 52°47'15.28"N Long: 0°45'2.08"E

[Mike L]

Tigger,
If the Hornchurch BHQs (2 shown on plan) are extant I would be surprised as I can't find a sign of either of them.
From plan reference Bldg 124 (WA 1515/AM MS2279) and Bldg 172 (WA 1559).
So sadly I would suggest removing from your list.

Mike

[tigger]

Tigger,
If the Hornchurch BHQs (2 shown on plan) are extant I would be surprised as I can't find a sign of either of them.
From plan reference Bldg 124 (WA 1515/AM MS2279) and Bldg 172 (WA 1559).
So sadly I would suggest removing from your list.

Mike

Mike,
Extant on site visit 22-Oct-2010 and unlikley to have been demolished since.

[SimonGee]

Maybe I've just been lucky; of the dozen or so that I've seen, very few have been flooded. Two things have interested me though about the ubiquitous 11008/41 though. One is the different levels of the fitting out inside; some are just bare brick, others have variations on painted walls, partial or full electrical fittings and doors or at least the frames. The other more intruging one is the height of the viewing slit from the floor in the OP. I hadn't thought about this until I went to the BHQ at Feltwell. At 5' 10", I'm no midgit, but I couldn't see out of the slit - ! When I measured the height of the bottom of the slit from the floor, it was 6' 2". Someone had obviously realised the cockup later, as there was the remains of a 7" high wooden duckboard on the floor. When I took the same measurement at Thorpe Abbots and Ellough BHQs, the heights were 5' 5" and 5' 9 " respectively. The biscuit has to go to the BHQ at Bodney where the OP has a 12" high hollow concrete hop up, forcing any observer of a 'normal' height to have to crouch down to see out of the slit - ! For the record, on the plans, the floor to ceiling height of the OP is 6' 6".

[tigger]

Mike (newage) and I have finally put some of the results of our excursions to BHQs online. This is a temporary version whilst I get to grips with database driven design. Lots of spelling mistakes etc. to deal with but thought some of you might like to take a look.

battleheadquarters.info

[Hal_Chase]

Here's Wymeswold, feel free to add it to your site Tigger

Oh and its flooded