Old war buildings, KirkBuddo, Scotland, June '08

Hi folks, went for an explore round the back roads of Dundee and came across these old war buildings just of the B978 between Monikie and Kirkbuddo. Did a quick search on the net but couldn't find any history though I'm sure Wolfism will enlighten you all later. Thanks to the field owner for letting me in to take the photos.



































Love'n'Peace.
SP

That's a really nice find, Spacepunk. I don't recognise all of the bits and bobs, apart from the pillbox, but some of it looks like an anti-aircraft site complete with generator room. Just had a quick google but there was nothing at all about the site...it'll be interesting to see what Wolfism comes up with. Love the gun mount.
Just had a thought...is it anything to do with an airfield? The long wall suggests a firing butt.
Cheers

another great find SP. Can't be much left to explore in the area now...but you never know!!

spacepunk said:

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Yeah I thought it could be an old airfield too. The picture above looks like the big firing butts they used to zero aircraft guns.

Looks like an old Post Office radar station, with them 4 big blocks(3rd pic) as bases for very large ariels.
There is one very similar here on the Island.

But I could be wrong

Nice find there Spacepunk

Looks like a Radar Station of some sort to me, definitely aerial bases there.

When you see it from above on flash earth it looks a lot more organised.
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=56.55957&lon=-2.840684&z=18.1&r=0&src=msl

Nice one Spacepunk, some good pics there. Nice find too

spacepunk said:

When you see it from above on flash earth it looks a lot more organised.

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Just had a look and to the South West of the site there's what looks like another one with some sort of mast or ariel. There are more square blocks but they radiate out rather than sit in sets of four. Is that connected in some way or something else entirely, do you know?

That's a modern communication mast about 200 feet high Foxylady. So this leads me to think that reception is pretty good in this area and the ruins must be part of an old radar station as stated by Urban Mole.
I'm gonna have a good search on the net later and see what I can unearth.

It's RAF Douglas Wood, a radar station, you're right. It was done on 28days, but the pics don't show.

The more interesting underground bunker-type bit is northeast, by the scout camp.

Found some interesting old aerial pics from 1947 here - http://www.geocities.com/douglaswood47/

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So this leads me to think that reception is pretty good in this area and the ruins must be part of an old radar station as stated by Urban Mole..

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foz101 said:

It's RAF Douglas Wood, a radar station, you're right...Found some interesting old aerial pics from 1947 here - http://www.geocities.com/douglaswood47/

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Cool! That's one of the things I love about the forum; the pooling of info and adding to the understanding of these sites. Love those aerial pics. Good stuff.

DW

i saw the pics and my thoughts were "Chain Home" but didn't want to guesstimate
There is a site on the edge of Dartmoor that looks similar i.e. it has similar mast bases

Link :http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=50.442098&lon=-4.042245&z=18.8&r=0&src=msl

G

yeah very similar. So radar centre it is then

spacepunk said:

Did a quick search on the net but couldn't find any history though I'm sure Wolfism will enlighten you all later.

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It's RAF Kirkbuddo, which included part of Douglas Wood's Chain Home aerial farm ... if you're interested in old airfields, might be worth getting a copy of [ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Action-Stations-Military-Airfields-North-east/dp/1852603097/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213861695&sr=1-1"]"Action Stations 7"[/ame].

ooooooooooh now these are the kind of places i love to see. Excellent find, and great pics too.

Cheers,

Sal

Thanks for the nice comments guys and wolfism, as always, you are the man.

Hello folks, this is my first post on here, great website it is too.

I live in the old officers house attached to this RAF site, (the white semi detached building in some of the pics)
This place is an old radar station (chain home low i think), there are 2 parts to it, a transmission site and a receiving site. not sure which was which but the Dundee scouts occupy 1 of the areas now.
There are 7 PIL boxes dotted around the area and i have 1 of the Guard houses at the bottom of my garden.

I did have an old gentleman at my door a while back telling me his friend worked here and one day saw a zepplin flying overhead.

Apparently this was a pretty top secret place in its time and was at the forefront of the whole radar/communication thing before it was moved.

If anybody has anymore info on this or can point me in the right direction, i'd be grateful.

Or if you'd like more pics, let me know


Thanks

Kev

Old war buildings

foz101 said:

It's RAF Douglas Wood, a radar station, you're right. It was done on 28days, but the pics don't show.

The more interesting underground bunker-type bit is northeast, by the scout camp.

Found some interesting old aerial pics from 1947 here - http://www.geocities.com/douglaswood47/

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Any chance the bunker mentioned is the "buried reserve".

One of these?

http://www.undergroundkent.co.uk/dunkirk_buried_reserve.htm