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Visited with Fluffy as part of our 3 day Hackgreen "Up north" trip. We had to get permission to visit the site but was well worth the effort, the site owner is a mind of information.
RAF Bramcote first opened in 1940 and was going to be allocated to bomber command part of 6Gp. It was then
used as an operational training base, many many SQN`s passed through Bramcote.
After WW2 in 1955 The Fleet Air Arm took over Bramcote and it then became HMS Gamecock but they did
not stay long, only a few years when in 1959 the Army took over, it was then used as barracks for the junior leaders reg of the Royal Artillery.
Today the Army still uses the old airfield as there barracks and as such is well and turly OFF limits.
Parts of the bomb store have been demolished over the years by the owner but he has got the pill boxes on his land listed as they are very unusual.
Enjoy......................
First off, we think this was a fuse storage building. Note the thick earth bank all round the building.
Then on to one of the large storage and mantance buildings.In the picture on the right you can still see the massive "I" beams used to lift and move bombs around the building.
Then on to the main Bomb store complex, the shot was taken from on top of the earth bank to get an overall picture of the building layout and site .
Each magazine is protected by thick concrete walls and earth banks, although each of the magazines
are used today there are still many odd artifacts left.
I could not get any pictures inside as the magazines are FULL of stuff, a local adventure group uses them.
Next we went off to look at the pillbox on site, WOW it`s a cracker.
As you can see its square, but that does not tell the whole story, There are loop holes on every face and even in the corners. but inside there is no anti-ricochet wall so you would be very exposed to incoming fire,
then the roof is built with a slop to it, never seen this before. The other pillboxes that are on the airfield also have this feature so it`s not a one off.
This is one other building on site, the owner did not know the purpose of this one. And then on the left is this small tie down, we think it may of been used to connect camo netting too, as there are some of these on top
of the earth banks around the magazines.
One last pillbox --------
Well that sabout it for Bramcote, thanks for looking all comments are most welcome, there are a few more pictures on my FlickR site so pop on over to -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/sets/72157629621069911/
Cheers Newage
Visited with Fluffy as part of our 3 day Hackgreen "Up north" trip. We had to get permission to visit the site but was well worth the effort, the site owner is a mind of information.
RAF Bramcote first opened in 1940 and was going to be allocated to bomber command part of 6Gp. It was then
used as an operational training base, many many SQN`s passed through Bramcote.
After WW2 in 1955 The Fleet Air Arm took over Bramcote and it then became HMS Gamecock but they did
not stay long, only a few years when in 1959 the Army took over, it was then used as barracks for the junior leaders reg of the Royal Artillery.
Today the Army still uses the old airfield as there barracks and as such is well and turly OFF limits.
Parts of the bomb store have been demolished over the years by the owner but he has got the pill boxes on his land listed as they are very unusual.
Enjoy......................
First off, we think this was a fuse storage building. Note the thick earth bank all round the building.
Then on to one of the large storage and mantance buildings.In the picture on the right you can still see the massive "I" beams used to lift and move bombs around the building.
Then on to the main Bomb store complex, the shot was taken from on top of the earth bank to get an overall picture of the building layout and site .
Each magazine is protected by thick concrete walls and earth banks, although each of the magazines
are used today there are still many odd artifacts left.
I could not get any pictures inside as the magazines are FULL of stuff, a local adventure group uses them.
Next we went off to look at the pillbox on site, WOW it`s a cracker.
As you can see its square, but that does not tell the whole story, There are loop holes on every face and even in the corners. but inside there is no anti-ricochet wall so you would be very exposed to incoming fire,
then the roof is built with a slop to it, never seen this before. The other pillboxes that are on the airfield also have this feature so it`s not a one off.
This is one other building on site, the owner did not know the purpose of this one. And then on the left is this small tie down, we think it may of been used to connect camo netting too, as there are some of these on top
of the earth banks around the magazines.
One last pillbox --------
Well that sabout it for Bramcote, thanks for looking all comments are most welcome, there are a few more pictures on my FlickR site so pop on over to -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/sets/72157629621069911/
Cheers Newage
- were there any air raid shelters?
