RAF Cark-Mushroom pillbox and unknown building June 08

shatters · Jun 29, 2008

Mushroom pillbox

Unknown building about 500m from taxiways

Between inner and outer walls

Inside

At sometime converted to a cattle shed

Then used by the local caravan park as a dumping ground

Other entrance back filled

Phil

spacepunk · Jun 29, 2008

Nice one shatters, a good find. Never seen one of those before.Thanks for posting.

Urban Mole · Jun 29, 2008

The pics of that last building look like it could be a building thats near an HAA position.
Is there one close nearby...?

shatters · Jun 29, 2008

Urban Mole said:
The pics of that last building look like it could be a building thats near an HAA position.
Is there one close nearby...?

No, we dont have any up here

Phil

Bryag · Jun 29, 2008

The unknown building could be the command centre. They often surrounded them with a banked wall for protection. Also it's positioning away from the airfield would mean it would not be a target from aerial attack (so the important people were safe

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krela · Jun 29, 2008

Nah it's a fairly standard ammo store.

krela · Jun 29, 2008

I think Urban Mole wins the prize (not that there is one), RAF Cark was used for Anti-Aircraft Gun training, so yes it is most likely related to that.

shatters · Jun 29, 2008

krela said:
Nah it's a fairly standard ammo store.

Was thinking ammo store myself, before the caravan park was built there would have been nothing within a couple of hundred metres of it, ideal if there had been an explosion.

Phil

Foxylady · Jul 1, 2008

shatters said:
Was thinking ammo store myself...

That was my first thought too, although wasn't sure. :mrgreen:

Nice find, Shatters. Mushroom pillboxes are so neat.

dewtech_2008 · Jul 5, 2008

God I thought all we had round here was boring normal Pillboxes!

Have to give me the location of some of these shatters!

shatters · Jul 5, 2008

dewtech_2008 said:
God I thought all we had round here was boring normal Pillboxes!

Have to give me the location of some of these shatters!

I think there are 2 more on the same site, its where they hold the car boot sales on sundays

Phil

dewtech_2008 · Jul 5, 2008

Not been up to C&C for ages, usually shoot straight past on the bypass heading over to barrow, with a detour to ROC Backbarrow if I have time.

shatters · Jul 5, 2008

Its well worth dropping in, nearly all the ww2 buildings are still extant although watch office is now a house.

Phil

dewtech_2008 · Jul 5, 2008

Any chance of posting or PM'ing us a good map showing where it is? Might be able to catch it if I go to flukborough at the end of the month.

shatters · Jul 5, 2008

HTH

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en...6705,-2.962875&spn=0.024772,0.057077&t=h&z=14

Phil

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