Hey guys! Me and burb147 thought we would have a look round RAF Newton today. The site is pretty busy with all sorts of trucks and vans driving around. I believe it's going to become one of the government's eco towns. It was a pretty relaxed explore, but not an awful lot to see. Other than the dorms most of the buildings are locked down and being used for storage for building materials and stuff by the looks of it! Now a bit of history (Thanks Wikipedia)!
RAF Newton was a Royal Air Force station, 7 miles east of Nottingham, England. It was used briefly as a bomber base and then as a flying training school during World War II. Built on the site of a pre-war civil airfield, Newton was assigned to No 1 Group in June 1940, when Nos 103 and 150 squadrons returned from France. These squadrons were re-equipped with Vickers Wellingtons in October 1940 but moved on to more suitable bomber airfields in July 1941. Newton then became a training base, and for the next five years No. 16 (Polish) Service Flying Training School provided basic and advanced training for Polish airmen serving with the RAF, using RAF Tollerton as a satellite landing ground. The station became the headquarters of No 12 Group, Fighter Command from 1946 until 1958, when Technical Training Command took over the station for electronic fitters courses. Later the station became the home of the RAF School of Education, who moved from RAF Upwood in 1972, and the RAF Police Training School, who moved from RAF Debden in 1973 bringing their gate guardian - a Hawker Hunter F1, WT694 (now at Caernarfon Air World) - with them. Both of these units transferred to RAF Halton in the 1990s.
All of the rooms are pretty generic! Lots and lots of rooms like this one!
I was suprised how good the general condition of the buildings were, but in a few the pikeys have been hard at work!
Some of the older buildings had bunkers below with these big steel doors!
An interior shot of the bunker
I just loved this shot
One of the bunkers had some cool art work done by the squadies
The control tower or something???
As I said not really very much to see. Lots of security round the site too. There are other parts we just couldn't get too as it was far too busy with people and cars.
The rest of the images are on my website!
RAF Newton was a Royal Air Force station, 7 miles east of Nottingham, England. It was used briefly as a bomber base and then as a flying training school during World War II. Built on the site of a pre-war civil airfield, Newton was assigned to No 1 Group in June 1940, when Nos 103 and 150 squadrons returned from France. These squadrons were re-equipped with Vickers Wellingtons in October 1940 but moved on to more suitable bomber airfields in July 1941. Newton then became a training base, and for the next five years No. 16 (Polish) Service Flying Training School provided basic and advanced training for Polish airmen serving with the RAF, using RAF Tollerton as a satellite landing ground. The station became the headquarters of No 12 Group, Fighter Command from 1946 until 1958, when Technical Training Command took over the station for electronic fitters courses. Later the station became the home of the RAF School of Education, who moved from RAF Upwood in 1972, and the RAF Police Training School, who moved from RAF Debden in 1973 bringing their gate guardian - a Hawker Hunter F1, WT694 (now at Caernarfon Air World) - with them. Both of these units transferred to RAF Halton in the 1990s.
All of the rooms are pretty generic! Lots and lots of rooms like this one!
I was suprised how good the general condition of the buildings were, but in a few the pikeys have been hard at work!
Some of the older buildings had bunkers below with these big steel doors!
An interior shot of the bunker
I just loved this shot
One of the bunkers had some cool art work done by the squadies
The control tower or something???
As I said not really very much to see. Lots of security round the site too. There are other parts we just couldn't get too as it was far too busy with people and cars.
The rest of the images are on my website!
