STOURPORT - Aviation Fuel Reserve Depot WW2 - Location?

[Engineer]

Theres a bit of "action" on Sandy Lane,i believe belongs to Callow fuels, with a small guard room,and across the road extant workshop buildings.

Do you have a FlashEarth link?

[worcester aviation]

Possible pump site.underground tanks recently re furbished-http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?t=h&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF8&ll=52.327648,-2.261509&spn=0.003482,0.006899&z=17
Workshop site-http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?t=h&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF8&ll=52.326599,-2.253249&spn=0.003482,0.006899&z=17

[Carnaby]

Pump Site Workshops ?

[Engineer]

I looked at the 'pumps' site with some interest a while back and although the buildings and apparent blast walls etc look interesting it is marked on the 1:25000 maps as a sewage works.
Perhaps a site visit or a PNK historic aerial pic are required?

Edit: Problem is StreetView does not seem to cover that particular street!

[worcester aviation]

When I visited the site whilst attending a breakdown on a machine,there were warning signs all around saying petroleum spirit-no smoking.and there was evidence of very old mostly,unreadable signs on the gates and fences in the WD style.
Im not sure about its true function,but i am pretty sure there was pump gear in one of the buildings.
I used to go to quite a lot of current and former military sites...just wish i had a camera handy.

[Engineer]

From your description it looks more interesting the more I look at it.
Some structures appear to be identical to Lincomb.

Red enclosure at Stourport.

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.32....2&r=0&src=msl

Similar structure at Lincomb.

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.31....9&r=0&src=msl

Two more similar structures.

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.32...20&r=0&src=msl

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.31...20&r=0&src=msl

When you add in the structures that appear to be valve compounds and spillage interceptors it looks promising.

Edit: Anyone on the forum live in the area?

[PNK]

I think that area used to be a sewage farm, if I have the correct location.

[worcester aviation]

Intresting.A mystery... another site visit me thinks!.

[andymacg]

how true this is I dont know as I'm going on the words of a chap who works at a place I deliver to after talking to him last night at work , but the pumping station is still used as is parts of the tank farm at Lincombe for the storage of a flammable liquid by a company who make rocket propellants

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&...+Kidderminster

[PETERTHEEATER]

Summerfield

Opened 1950 - Imperial Metals Industry as explosives factory - filling factory and rocket motor manufacture.