Fire Tender Shed... not fire station
I stand corrected, said the man in the orthepaedic shoes
RAF Peterhead (Longside) - Oct 08. Filling in the gaps.
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I stand corrected, said the man in the orthepaedic shoes
krela
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And no bad thing
Seahorse
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Fire Tender Shed... not fire station
HAHA. Bryag called it a fire station in his Banff thread too.
You say tomato, I say, err... tomato. (Doesn't quite come across the same when you write it.
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Time to resurrect this thread methinks. I was bored in June last year and had another wee wander around the south west corner over by the disperal areas. Here's the results.
Let's start off with a pillbox. For Cptpies' benefit, I'll confirm this one from the blurb thusly...
Dispersal and Stanton shelters.
And an unidentified building. I thought ablutions. But it's miles away from anywhere except the dispersals. Hmm. Have a look and see what you think.
This place was inhabited by a "gentleman of the road" when I was a lad.
I'll be nipping back at some point to record all the pillboxes. I have a soft spot for this design for some reason.
Let's start off with a pillbox. For Cptpies' benefit, I'll confirm this one from the blurb thusly...
Dispersal and Stanton shelters.
And an unidentified building. I thought ablutions. But it's miles away from anywhere except the dispersals. Hmm. Have a look and see what you think.
This place was inhabited by a "gentleman of the road" when I was a lad.
I'll be nipping back at some point to record all the pillboxes. I have a soft spot for this design for some reason.
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Good pics, SH.
If that building's close to dispersal, it's probably a crew standby room. There's a similar one at Macmerry.
If that building's close to dispersal, it's probably a crew standby room. There's a similar one at Macmerry.
Is it not an aircrew accommodation block ? It looks very similar to the buildings at Kings Cliffe dispersal pens !!!
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Not entirely sure how that would work. I guess you could squeeze bunks in along one wall though. I'll need to go back and check dimensions. But from memory, you'd need to be very short if they were bunks.
There would certainly be no room for chairs and the like.
Does Macmerry have ventilation suspended under the ceiling?
I'll pop along tomorrow for a better look.
There would certainly be no room for chairs and the like.
Does Macmerry have ventilation suspended under the ceiling?
I'll pop along tomorrow for a better look.
That may be listed as an FC construction box, but it's very different in construction to all the "proper" East Anglian FC ones I've seen.
The walls on FCs normally have a concrete ring capping around the top of the wall, even on ones with a bricked up embrasure. I've never seen a deep embrasure like the one on yours before. The roof design's also pretty different. FCs normally have a prefab roof with a concrete cap, where yours looks almost like it's been rendered over bricks in situ? It's really interesting to see though - almost as though someone from down south sent a photo of theirs and they built one how they thought it ought to look
Fluffy's right about the dispersal building though. It's identical to the one at Kings Cliffe. I'm pretty sure that one's recorded as an aircrew block*
* Edit: It's actually listed as "Sleeping shelter", so presumably a rest room for standby air crew. Quite why they didn't just use the Stanton shelters instead is a bit puzzling. Think I'd want to if I was there facing the risk of air raids!
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That may be listed as an FC construction box, but it's very different in construction to all the "proper" East Anglian FC ones I've seen.
The walls on FCs normally have a concrete ring capping around the top of the wall, even on ones with a bricked up embrasure. I've never seen a deep embrasure like the one on yours before. The roof design's also pretty different. FCs normally have a prefab roof with a concrete cap, where yours looks almost like it's been rendered over bricks in situ? It's really interesting to see though - almost as though someone from down south sent a photo of theirs and they built one how they thought it ought to look
Fluffy's right about the dispersal building though. It's identical to the one at Kings Cliffe. I'm pretty sure that one's recorded as an aircrew block*
* Edit: It's actually listed as "Sleeping shelter", so presumably a rest room for standby air crew. Quite why they didn't just use the Stanton shelters instead is a bit puzzling. Think I'd want to if I was there facing the risk of air raids!
I think the ones at Peterhead are unique. Certainly, I've never seen the like anywhere else. There isn't exactly an all round field of fire from these things, so presumably they were relying on each one covering the others. Spread a bit far apart for that though.
There are a number of FC pillboxes that have had their embrasures partially bricked up to create single or multiple embrasures. You can't blame the people on site wanting to do that, they are really only good for overhead cover otherwise
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