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RichCooper

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A decoy site thats supposed to be demolished.I was lucky with this one as a guy I work with spotted it while out with his rambling club :) and told me roughly where it was.No internals though as they didnt turn out but I thought Id post the rest anyway


E18756 by Rich Cooper2012, on Flickr


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E18756 (13) by Rich Cooper2012, on Flickr


E18756 (14) by Rich Cooper2012, on Flickr


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Thanks for looking
 
nice one rich mate, like we were saying the other night how many of the others are marked as being removed
 
jonney said:
nice one rich mate, like we were saying the other night how many of the others are marked as being removed
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Removed tends to mean that much of a 'site' has been removed rather than that there are no traces left.
Another example of a 'removed' site is Q102 at Betchton, decoy for RAF Cranage. The control bunker survives and is in very good condition.

Steve's overlay can be a bit mis-leading in this respect.
 
jonney said:
nice one rich mate, like we were saying the other night how many of the others are marked as being removed
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This one was way off from where the guy said maybe theres another ? I'll see him this week about it but im sure he said there was no blast wall.I think this maybe down as removed as its not visable on GE owing to the trees and its a fair way east of the marker
 
Munchh said:
Great work Rich. Have you identified it?



Unintentionally so of course, as he originally had to plot the 'flawed' DOB archive into GE as a starting point :)
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I think its the one marked about a quarter of a mile to the west, I think Steves doing a sterling job with his overlay I'd be lost without it
 
Steve has done sterling work indeed especially as like you say his starting points weren't that good
 
Munchh said:
Unintentionally so of course, as he originally had to plot the 'flawed' DOB archive into GE as a starting point :)
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In the case of the decoys he has used the excellent lists from Colin Dobinson's book (Fields of Deception) but the positions given relate to a nominal centre of the decoy rather than the control building.

I have effectively done the same thing for the airfield battle headquarters buildings when I have not been able to locate them more precisiely.

I'm not trying to belittle Steve's overlay - it's a superb research tool and one I contribute to.
 
the beauty about Steves work is that the like of us are helping to put the records right by giving corrections.
 
Excellent find Rich. I'll correct the placemark.

A note to everyone that as far as the decoys are concerned removed means that there is no remains of the fire pits or lighting infrastructure left and no sign of the Control Bunker on aerial imagery. This is the case for 99% of decoy sites and as tigger says the placemarks are for the approximate centre of the original site taken from Fields of Deception which is wildly inaccurate in a lot of cases anyway.

I have upgraded sites to extant if the control bunker exists and moved the placemarks to the location of the bunker. I could set all the "Removed" sites to "Unknown" but I think it would be confusing to the casual user of the overlay and those looking at the placemarks in the GE community layer since the sites are quite obviously not there in the majority of cases and the placemark is not just referring to the control bunker.
 
I've got a load of stuff to send you Steve which I'll do as soon as I get time
 
cptpies said:
Excellent find Rich. I'll correct the placemark.

A note to everyone that as far as the decoys are concerned removed means that there is no remains of the fire pits or lighting infrastructure left and no sign of the Control Bunker on aerial imagery. This is the case for 99% of decoy sites and as tigger says the placemarks are for the approximate centre of the original site taken from Fields of Deception which is wildly inaccurate in a lot of cases anyway.

I have upgraded sites to extant if the control bunker exists and moved the placemarks to the location of the bunker. I could set all the "Removed" sites to "Unknown" but I think it would be confusing to the casual user of the overlay and those looking at the placemarks in the GE community layer since the sites are quite obviously not there in the majority of cases and the placemark is not just referring to the control bunker.
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Yes that's kind of what I was meaning to say when I responded to tigger's post. Seriously no offence intended tig. It was the choice of the word 'misleading' which although I know exactly what tigger meant by it (ie sometimes confusing), I felt it could suggest to the casual user of your overlay that the info was unreliable, and that as we know is certainly not the case. I visit 'removed' sites as often as I do extant ones. It's always interesting and it's always useful.

Sorry if this comes across as a bit off topic at all Rich as this is a very interesting site you've found and I would not wish to detract from that.

As said in my last post, I'm very much looking forward to seeing internals.........anytime you're ready..........well, anytime soon........well, anytime real soon.....................well, now, actually. :mrgreen::)
 
Munchh said:
Not in the slightest tigger, I know that. :)

Will be good to see the internals when you can Rich. What was the issue? too dark no tripod sort of thing I presume.
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Really have no clue what happened with the internal pics :confused: Im sure the flash went off lol maybe an old age thing but ill get back in the next couple of weeks be easy enough now I know where it is,not thats theres much to see as its in the usual sh*t order
 

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