it's brilliant

i've seen that place a hundred times or more and never had a clue. my father in law (lives nearby us) always refers to that road as "airforce lane" even though it has another name and he didn't know about the decoy bunker (he moved here in the 70s out of the city so must have picked this up from the old boys). it has a blast wall in front of the entrance and an ops room and a dayroom with a chimney over where a stove once would have been and an escape hatch. everything has been stripped out but incredibly the internal doors are still there. amazing to think how many lives were saved by these all over the east of england.

Posted By: Tombs on February 26th 2021 at 20:13:54

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today i learnt that an old derelict "farm building" at the edge of a nearby field (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 20:00:27
- Adam R agrees... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Feb 26, 21:06:57
  - 👍 (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 21:59:16
  - Your Grumpah Dubs? (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 26, 21:16:03
- The Lockheed factory in Burbank Calif. was completely camouflaged. (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Feb 26, 21:02:17
  - OMG thats nuts! (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Feb 26, 21:46:36
  - Thats amazing.... (n/m) (General Chat) - promethian1, Feb 26, 21:06:46
  - I read something about a car factory in Coventry (Land Rover?) being (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 26, 21:05:44
    - This might be a bit of it... (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 26, 21:19:28
      - this bit made me lol (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 21:55:51
        
        ... (General Chat) - Chris Peacock, Feb 26, 22:00:15
        
        add in the sound fx (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 22:03:57
- Whereabouts ? (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Feb 26, 20:59:53
  - here (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 21:42:50
  - Don’t tell him Pike (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 26, 21:01:20
- 👍 (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 26, 20:56:16
- A lot of that went on (General Chat) - Old Man, Feb 26, 20:46:24
  - turns out the ten bombing raids (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 20:54:46
- lovely. to be honest, some our planes were 'wooden frames and cloth' !!!! (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Feb 26, 20:20:44
  - The Wellington bomber was wooden, a geodetic framework fuselage (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Feb 26, 20:59:12
  - Mosquito was wooden I think, but it was fast. (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 26, 20:27:41
  - that is very true indeed (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 20:21:31
- Brilliant. (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 26, 20:08:18
- The Ferry Inn Horning (General Chat) - KevinBond, Feb 26, 20:04:43
  - Matteus von Gibson (n/m) (General Chat) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Feb 26, 20:20:51
  - Herman of course. (n/m) (General Chat) - promethian1, Feb 26, 20:16:42
    - herman the german? (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 20:17:18
      - So many Germans (n/m) (General Chat) - KevinBond, Feb 26, 20:23:21
- that's fantastic (n/m) (General Chat) - dr fanta, Feb 26, 20:03:12
  - it's brilliant (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 20:13:54
    - ah turns out the ops room was in fact a generator room (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 20:26:53
    - in the US it wiuld be designated a national monument (General Chat) - dr fanta, Feb 26, 20:26:19
      - definitely they would (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 20:31:44
        
        hang on a sec. My grandmother (deceased) remember the bastards bombing KL in the 1st War. (General Chat) - shoddy, Feb 26, 20:42:41

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