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uktogster

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Personal project.

After spending many years as a child playing BB gun wars with my friends I recently re-visited Marchington Camp the barracks area for CVD Marchington.

It appears the canteen area of the camp has since been demolished, which was built c1957, and disused by the RAOC since 1967, after which time it became a TA & Cadet Forces Training Camp till it closed c1990.

CVD Marchington which had been in existence in some form or other since 1946 (started off in a muddy field containing war surplus vehicles) as 311 Veh Coy then 32 CVD before being renamed a Central Vehicle Depot (CVD) till it was decided to close CVD Marchington as a RAOC Depot in 1967. It was only ever used as a Vehicle Depot and other Ordnance Stores were not kept here.

After 1967 the Vehicle Depot which is not far from the camp was taken over by the Home Office as a Storage Depot for among other things the Royal Observer Corps, and Special Vehicles Maintaince, most notably the 'Green Goodess' Fire Tender, Civil Defence Lorries & Landrovers. - The Depot is still in use as an Industrial Estate.

I hope this thread proves enjoyable and of interest to some of the audience,


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All images - © Chris Withington
 
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Nothing wrong with those images mate
it maybe helpful to explain what this site is, so we can understand what we are looking at
a bit of a write up is helpful
thanks for sharing :)
 
Thank you, I would love to do a write up but I did get a pm and email immediately after signing up with many restrictions about information I share.

Didn't want to get in to trouble on my first post.

Very respectfully

Chris
 
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Thank you, I would love to do a write up but I did get a pm and email immediately after signing up with many restrictions about information I share.

Didn't want to get n to trouble on my first post.

Very respectfully

Chris

Pretty sure the PM was about asking for information, not giving it. ;)

It's entirely up to you how much you share, a little history is always nice. The only thing best left out are addresses.
 
Like your black and white photos, and the lighting used, good to see a different angle taken from here.
been coming here on and off since the late 1980's, and it was a very different place back then, most the windows were still in, no steel shutters, no fence, fixtures and fittings still in, no graffiti, it was like the place was just walked out of and left then.
Have 100's of images from here over the years.
Its just a stripped out ruin of a shell today.
One of the few large sites never developed, not entirely sure why on this, planning issues i think.

THE ODEON
 
Very interesting read Odeon, Thanks for that.

I have only ever seen the Barracks as a ruin, although when I went as a child it wasn't fenced off or covered in shutters.
 
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Very interesting read Odeon, Thanks for that.

I have only ever seen the as a ruin, although when I went as a child it wasn't fenced off or covered in shutters.

what year would have that been aprox? many of the buildings have been demolished over the last 10 years, there was a canteen kitchen block in the middle, a boiler house with 2 oil tanks and substations, the Guardroom depot (nissen hut compound) and the NAFFI (wooden buildings)
 
I am so grateful of this reply, I searched all 6 buildings which remain trying to find the canteen, I used to hide in there with my BB gun, I couldn't remember its exact location but I believe it was in the middle, I also searched google extensively trying to find some more information with regard buildings being demolished, It's been done in such a way you would never really know any other buildings stood their, My last visit to the site as a child was 1999.

Again Thank you

C
what year would have that been aprox? many of the buildings have been demolished over the last 10 years, there was a canteen kitchen block in the middle, a boiler house with 2 oil tanks and substations, the Guardroom depot (nissen hut compound) and the NAFFI (wooden buildings)
 
I am so grateful of this reply, I searched all 6 buildings which remain trying to find the canteen, I used to hide in there with my BB gun, I couldn't remember its exact location but I believe it was in the middle, I also searched google extensively trying to find some more information with regard buildings being demolished, It's been done in such a way you would never really know any other buildings stood their, My last visit to the site as a child was 1999.

Again Thank you

C

In 1999, it was all still there, and at that time allthough badly vandalized, was still a lot better condition than its been in the last 10 years, its sad to see it today knowing how tidy it was in the 80's, it was a real time warp when i first visited in 1988.It was all layed out with gardens, mature trees, now its an over grown wilderness. ONe of your photos features the telephone exchange which is on the ground floor block opposite the industrial estate. Each block used to have the name of a second world war battle above the front doors. I know a few people who served there in the 60's, they told me what a lot of the blocks were used for, one block was full of women, as they had WRAC detachment serving there.
regards
 

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