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This was a bonus find while we were out on a ROC Fest day last week (8 ROC Posts in one day....reports to follow !!), I've not seen anything like this before but I checked with a fellow explorer who has good knowledge of WW2 defences (thx cptpies
) and he thinks it was almost certainly a World War 2 Royal Observer Corps Post. Failing that there's a few people here who think this was a Starfish Decoy Control Bunker related to RAF Wittering
The reason behind this is that its in direct line of a known German Bomber route to London and would have been used to report the height and heading of bomber streams to fighter command.
The building has three rooms, one small room at the front, which is now buried and was possibly either a generator room or more likely a toilet, a 12ft x 10ft room to one side of the entrance corridor and a large 30ft x 12ft room. The large room has a ladder on the end wall going up to a hatch in the concrete roof which looked like at one time it had a brick surround. At various points in the roof were large circular holes and on the large flat concrete roof was evidence of mounting points, possibly for a 'Micklethwaite' type device or maybe another small platform/canopy. Surrounding this site are piles of broken brickwork and at least one Blast Wall which may well have covered the main entrance originally.
All in all an interesting find and despite the graffiti the place had a nice feel to it.
This was a bonus find while we were out on a ROC Fest day last week (8 ROC Posts in one day....reports to follow !!), I've not seen anything like this before but I checked with a fellow explorer who has good knowledge of WW2 defences (thx cptpies
) and he thinks it was almost certainly a World War 2 Royal Observer Corps Post. Failing that there's a few people here who think this was a Starfish Decoy Control Bunker related to RAF WitteringThe reason behind this is that its in direct line of a known German Bomber route to London and would have been used to report the height and heading of bomber streams to fighter command.
The building has three rooms, one small room at the front, which is now buried and was possibly either a generator room or more likely a toilet, a 12ft x 10ft room to one side of the entrance corridor and a large 30ft x 12ft room. The large room has a ladder on the end wall going up to a hatch in the concrete roof which looked like at one time it had a brick surround. At various points in the roof were large circular holes and on the large flat concrete roof was evidence of mounting points, possibly for a 'Micklethwaite' type device or maybe another small platform/canopy. Surrounding this site are piles of broken brickwork and at least one Blast Wall which may well have covered the main entrance originally.
All in all an interesting find and despite the graffiti the place had a nice feel to it.
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