War Office HQs, SOE Sites etc Photos Only

[buccaneer66]

1645 the height of the English Civil War was you spying for Cromwell?

[OneEighthBit]

Well, if you remember the Plough Hotel being built, OneEightBit, then that's why you feel old ! It date's from 1645 !!

I'm from Gloucestershire and half Polish so don't expect me to be good at English grammar.

Repeat, please.

[airfields man]

This is Wantage Hall, along the Upper Redlands Road in Reading. It was used by the RAF during WW II.

[airfields man]

This notice-board with the small RAF information sheet is just inside the main entrance. This is all that I was allowed to photograph today as the students were still in-class ? not that I saw anyone, anywhere ! But was told that if I came back during the summer holiday's I could take a few more from outside the entrance porch ?? similar to those shown Sadly no-one had the key to un-lock the glass fronted cover so that I could take a photograph of the sheet without reflections. Ah well....

[Jenna]

airfields man do you know anything/have any photos of Stanway House. Research has shown the House was used as the war time home of the Kerr-Sander Secretarial Collage which supplied staff to MI5, SOE and the War Office (it's normal home was Empire House, 176 Piccadilly, London

[airfields man]

Jenna, I called there last week,no camera, went there again today and took these photographs in the heavy, but fine rain. Notice how close the church is to the House, picked up a brochure from this church last week, can't find it now !!

[airfields man]

Even though the place is closed on Wednesday's I drove into the grounds to photograph the church from the other side.

[airfields man]

[airfields man]

I took these today in the dismal hazy rain. Blue plaque by the door in the penultimate photograph.

[airfields man]

Hope that I can be forgiven, as I stood on a derelict tomb to take this photograph today. Stanway House again. All of these old gravestones would have obviously been here during the SOE's tenure at this House.