False Airlield Generator, Kelling and various Norfolk Coast Pillbox Porn.

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Black Shuck

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Here is a Generator Bunker for a false Airfield that was constructed to distract German Bombers away from Major Towns and Radar Facilities on the North Norfolk Coast. It powered a set of Runway Lights that were designed to fool Germans into releasing their Deadly Payload... Front elevation of Bunker A Strange Corrugated Concrete Blast Wall near the entrance, the Bunker had 4 entrances!! Another of the Entrances covered with Ivy Pillbox near Happisburgh on the Cliff Top near Doggets Lane This is near Happisburgh Radar Station Part of the Old Happisburgh Radar Station behind a typical Norfolk heap of SHIT!! Another Pillbox just North of the Happisburgh one and in the same Defensive line, I couldnt be arsed to walk all the way over!!
 
Ooh, an airfield decoy! Never actually seen one, although there's one over in Fife that I've planning a visit to for years.
Great pics.
 
Thats right Historian, the first I have ever found actually. I researched this a little but it wasnt exactly hard to find!!!:lol:
 
Mate, that shot with the lighthouse is stunning, the light is perfect. I have never seen a decoy airstrip before, but I have heard of them, I think we had one up our way, where they would light oil drums to distract the bombers. Really good report that.

Ian
 
Mate, that shot with the lighthouse is stunning, the light is perfect. I have never seen a decoy airstrip before, but I have heard of them, I think we had one up our way, where they would light oil drums to distract the bombers. Really good report that.

Ian

Thanks TK, the Lighthouse has been at Happisburgh since the early 1800s it was a stunning morning, albeit very very cold! The wind was coming straight off the Sea!!:)
 
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Well done Black Shuck. Nice pictures.

We are going to have to visit the North Walsham one soon. I have mapped out the potential locations of the lights and they have the same layout as norwich airport. The council have marked these as bronze age ring ditches, but i think that having loads within such a small area, and at a decoy site is a bit of a coincidence ;)

The jenny house has been destroyed, but i think there are a few reminents of different buildings there aswell.
 
Well done Black Shuck. Nice pictures.

We are going to have to visit the North Walsham one soon. I have mapped out the potential locations of the lights and they have the same layout as norwich airport. The council have marked these as bronze age ring ditches, but i think that having loads within such a small area, and at a decoy site is a bit of a coincidence ;)

The jenny house has been destroyed, but i think there are a few reminents of different buildings there aswell.

I would have to agree with you totally on that one Home Guard. Too much to be just sheer coincidence!!!:)
 
Sorry mate, Im really not that technical!!:) I use good old fashioned intuition and Local Knowledge and History. :):lol:
 
How strange, have just joined this forum and been out today to take pics of a similar building in Devon. Actually 2 buildings, One is for the generator of a decoy airstrip the other is for a generator for the decoy lights of Exeter. Just got to work out how to get the pics up. They won't be as good as yours though :)
 
Have just joined photobucket but haven't worked out how to get my pics to it from the computer yet. I use a nikon coolpix and the photos go into a program called Picture Project. I do have several younger members of the family who will help but they don't live with me so next time they call will sort it :)
 
Nice :) Now I'll know what I'm looking at if I ever find one.

I can't help but wonder why it's so heavily built/protected if they were actually expecting the site to be bombed?? seems a bit of a waste :mrgreen:

Oh and excellent website HomeGuard.. very useful!
 
Nice :) Now I'll know what I'm looking at if I ever find one.

I can't help but wonder why it's so heavily built/protected if they were actually expecting the site to be bombed?? seems a bit of a waste :mrgreen:

Oh and excellent website HomeGuard.. very useful!

Because it did actually house a Genrator, that powered false Airfield Landing Lights.:)
 
Have just joined photobucket but haven't worked out how to get my pics to it from the computer yet. I use a nikon coolpix and the photos go into a program called Picture Project. I do have several younger members of the family who will help but they don't live with me so next time they call will sort it :)
Skate try Photobucket, its dead easy.:)
 
Nice :) Now I'll know what I'm looking at if I ever find one.

I can't help but wonder why it's so heavily built/protected if they were actually expecting the site to be bombed?? seems a bit of a waste :mrgreen:

Oh and excellent website HomeGuard.. very useful!

This was a night-time decoy airfield ,or 'Q site' to get all technical. Had to be well protected,not only for the generators, but also for the poor buggers who maintained and operated it to take shelter when they were bombed:exclaim:
 

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