Building descriptions are for WW2
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Technical Site 1959
The three Nissen huts on the far right are crew locker & drying rooms and the two large Romney sheds (arched huts) in the centre are main workshops. The smaller Nissen is a rubber store and on the extreme left is part of the main stores. The tall brick-building beyond the Romneys is the AML bombing teacher and to its right is a brick Link trainer hut. Photo: Tom Burns |
May 1945 - Interior View of Control Tower 343/43
This is the control room. Photo: USAAF 9668 (public domain) via D Scanlon/J Hamlin |
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Technical Site 1959
The very small building in the foreground is a technical latrine, the larger brick hut to its left is a dinghy shed and the arched Romney shed on the far right is part of the main stores. The long brick hut is a gas respirator store & workshop and the two black buildings are post-WW2 of unknown function. Note that the northern and southern parallel taxiways (western end only) existed in 1959. Photo: Tom Burns |
May 1945 - Signalling Pent House (343/43 Control Tower)
Photo: USAAF (public domain) via D Scanlon/J Hamlin
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May 1945 - Group Photograph Outside 343/43 Control Tower
Photo: USAAF (public domain) Via D Scanlon/J Hamlin |
Interior View of Signalling Pent House (343/43 Control Tower)
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May 1945 - Signalling Pent House (343/43 Control Tower)
Photo: USAAF 9663 (public domain) via D Scanlon/J Hamlin |
