RAF Oakington Volume 2 - The Airfield Research Group

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2.43 Commutated Aerial Direction Finding Building (513) ....................................................... 96 2.44 Small Arms Ammunition Store (517) ............................................................................... 98 2.45 VHF / UHF Transmitter Station (516, 518) ...................................................................... 99 2.46 Exhaust Silencer and Ventilating Column ..................................................................... 100 2.47 Open Store .................................................................................................................... 101 2.48 Sleeve Streamer Mast (516) .......................................................................................... 102 2.49 Airfield Identification Letters and Signal Square ............................................................ 103 2.50 Aircraft Servicing Platforms ........................................................................................... 105 2.51 BEFAB ‘Safeland’ Emergency Arrester Net .................................................................. 106 3. Bomb Stores .................................................................................................... 107 3.2 Practice Bomb Store and Gas Chamber (171) ................................................................ 108 3.3 High Explosive Fuzing Point Buildings (173 & 177/8) ..................................................... 109 3.4 Bomb Stores Type ‘D’ (184–186) .................................................................................... 110 3.5 Bomb Stores (187–189, 193/4 & 203/4) .......................................................................... 113 3.6 Components Storehouse (198 & 199) ............................................................................. 114 4. Airfield Defence and Air-Raid Shelters ............................................................. 115 4.1 Airfield Defence ............................................................................................................... 115 4.2 FW3/22 Pillbox ................................................................................................................ 116 4.3 FC Construction Pillbox ................................................................................................... 118 4.4 Watch Towers / Pillboxes ................................................................................................ 122 4.5 Air-Raid Shelters ............................................................................................................. 124 5. Dispersed Domestic Sites (Site 3) .................................................................... 127 5.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 127 5.2 British Concrete Federation Huts (308–310) ................................................................... 127 5.3 Arcon Houses .................................................................................................................. 128 6. Remote Sites ................................................................................................... 129 6.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 129 6.2 British Instrument Landing System .................................................................................. 129 6.3 VHF / DF Building 62/52 and Stand by Set House 450/50 Site ....................................... 131 7. Airmen’s Married Quarters Communal Buildings .............................................. 133 7.1 NAAFI Families Shop ...................................................................................................... 133 AP PENDI CES Appendix 1 – Summary of Buildings & Structures ..................................................... 134 Appendix 2 – Room Inventory – (28 February 1941) ................................................. 143 Appendix 3 – Buildings Demolished Before 2004 ...................................................... 156 Appendix 4 – Sources, Drawings ............................................................................... 160 Appendix 5 – Sources, National Archives .................................................................. 162 Appendix 6 – Secondary Sources .............................................................................. 163 ii
T ABLES Table I – Lubricant & Inflammable Store Rooms ..................................................................... 68 Table II – Summary of FW3/22 Pillboxes .............................................................................. 116 Table III – Summary of FC Construction Pillboxes ................................................................ 119 Table IV – Summary of Stanton Shelters .............................................................................. 124 Table V – Summary of Blast Shelters .................................................................................... 126 SIT E PLANS Fig 1: Site Plan .......................................................................................................................... 3 Fig 2: Site Plan .......................................................................................................................... 4 Fig 3: Bomb stores site plan .................................................................................................. 107 PHOTOGRAPHS Plate 1: Watch Office with Meteorological Section and modern visual control room ................ vi Plate 2: Air Ministry bombing teacher inside the armoury ...................................................... viii Plate 3: RAF Oakington’s water tower ....................................................................................... 2 Plate 4: Central heating station (55) .......................................................................................... 5 Plate 5: Officers’ mess central block ......................................................................................... 9 Plate 6: Officers mess, general view ......................................................................................... 9 Plate 7: Officers mess, the dining room ................................................................................... 10 Plate 8: Officers’ mess, the anteroom ..................................................................................... 10 Plate 9: Officers’ mess (2) – rear view ..................................................................................... 11 Plate 10: Officers’ mess (SE wing) .......................................................................................... 11 Plate 11: Officers’ garages (3) ................................................................................................. 12 Plate 12: Squash racquets court (4) ........................................................................................ 13 Plate 13: Guard and fire party house (7) ................................................................................. 15 Plate 14: Guard and fire party house (7) ................................................................................. 15 Plate 15: Guard and fire party house (14) ............................................................................... 16 Plate 16: A wooden bed inside one of the modern cells .......................................................... 16 Plate 17: Station sick quarters (8) ........................................................................................... 18 Plate 18: Station sick quarters and annexe (8 and 10) ............................................................ 18 Plate 19: Decontamination annexe (10) .................................................................................. 21 Plate 20: Decontamination annexe (10) .................................................................................. 21 Plate 21: Station headquarters (14) ......................................................................................... 23 Plate 22: Station headquarters – operations block (14) .......................................................... 24 Plate 23: Station headquarters (14) ......................................................................................... 24 Plate 24: Battalion Headquarters (14) ..................................................................................... 25 Plate 25: Battalion Headquarters (14) ..................................................................................... 25 Plate 26: Grocery shop and store (17) .................................................................................... 27 Plate 27: Grocery shop and store (17), view from the empties yard ....................................... 27 Plate 28: Petrol store (17A) ..................................................................................................... 28 Plate 29: Unit store (18) ........................................................................................................... 29 Plate 30: Barrack block type 8/84 (39) .................................................................................... 32 Plate 31: Barrack block type 8/84 (19) .................................................................................... 33 Plate 32: Barrack block type 8/84 (22) .................................................................................... 33 iii
Page 1: RAF RAF RAF OAKINGTON AKINGTON GAZE
Page 6 and 7: Plate 33: Barrack block type 8/84 (
Page 8 and 9: Plate 133: FC Construction pillbox
Page 10 and 11: Plate 2: Air Ministry bombing teach
Page 12 and 13: 1.2 Site Overview In September 2004
Page 14 and 15: Fig 2: Site Plan 4
Page 16 and 17: 2.1 Officers' Mess & Quarters (2) 6
Page 18 and 19: 2.1.5 Central Block First Floor The
Page 20 and 21: Plate 7: Officers mess, the dining
Page 22 and 23: 2.2 Officers' Garages (3) 59 8 7 /
Page 24 and 25: 2.4 Guard and Fire Party House (7)
Page 26 and 27: Plate 15: Guard and fire party hous
Page 28 and 29: 2.5.7 Status, March 2011 All intern
Page 30 and 31: attack, it was quite likely to be c
Page 32 and 33: 2.7 Station Headquarters and Operat
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Page 36 and 37: 2.8 Grocery Shop & Store (17) 17 3
Page 38 and 39: 2.9 Petrol Store (17A) B u i l d i
Page 40 and 41: 2.11 Barrack Blocks (19-22, 25, 26,
Page 42 and 43: Building 25 was mainly empty, altho
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Page 52 and 53: 2.14 Ration Store (32) 31 7 2 / 3 8
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2.16 MT Vehicle Sheds & Yard (40 &
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2.16.4 Long Bay (42) At the SE end
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2.17 Articulated Trailer Shed (45)
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2.19 AMWD Offices, Workshops & Yard
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a parapet above an upper (6 inch th
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prepare the station for a possible
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2.21 Central Heating Station Type 2
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2.22 Link Trainer Building (56) 17
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2.23 Synthetic Navigation Classroom
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2.25 25-yard Machine-gun Range (59)
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2.27 Training Theatre (63) NAO/55/7
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2.28 Main Stores (66) 7034/37, NGR:
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2.29 Lubricant & Inflammable Store
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2.30 Armoury (70) 73 0 4 / 3 7 & M
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Plate 74: Armoury offices (70) Marc
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Plate 78: Armoury (70) bombing targ
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Plate 80: Store (73) north elevatio
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2.33 Main Workshops (76) 69 5 8 / 3
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2.34 T2 Hangars (79 & 80) N G R : (
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2.35 Type ‘J’ Aircraft Sheds (8
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Plate 89: ‘J’ type aircraft she
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2.36 Night Flying Equipment Store (
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Plate 94: Nissen hut (95) aircraft
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2.39 Airfield Lighting ‘B’ Cont
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2.41 Squadron Dispersal Building /
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2.42 New Gymnasium (514) & Squash R
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2.43 Commutated Aerial Direction Fi
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2.44 Small Arms Ammunition Store (5
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2.46 Exhaust Silencer and Ventilati
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2.48 Sleeve Streamer Mast (516) N G
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Plate 113: Airfield code letters 19
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2.51 BEFAB ‘Safeland’ Emergency
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3.2 Practice Bomb Store and Gas Cha
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3.4 Bomb Stores Type ‘D’ (184-1
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Plate 121: Bomb stores (186) trolle
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3.6 Components Storehouse (198 & 19
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4.2 FW3/22 Pillbox 4.2.1 Introducti
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4.3 FC Construction Pillbox 4.3.1 I
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Plate 131: FC Construction pillbox,
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4.4 Watch Towers / Pillboxes 4.4.1
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4.5 Air-Raid Shelters 4.5.1 Introdu
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Plate 141: Interior of Stanton shel
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Huts such as these were also used f
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6.2.2 Outer Marker 5216E/54 N G R :
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6.3.3 Stand by Set House N G R : TL
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Appendix 1 - S U M M AR Y O F BUI L
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Appendix I (contd) - Summary Of Bui
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Building 2 contd. Appendix 2 (contd
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Station Sick Quarters 7503/37 Groun
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Building 13 contd Station Headquart
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Building 23 contd Sergeants’ Mess
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Compressor House 318/37 Building 47
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Building 70 contd Parachute Store 6
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Appendix 3 - BUILDING S DEM O L I S
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Plate 154: RC Church (160) 1999 Pla
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Appendix 4 - SO U R C E S, DRAW I N
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Appendix 5 - S O U R C E S, NAT IO
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