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Paul Bellamy
2/11/2007 7:11:38 PM | Does anyone have a copy of the Air Ministry Plan of Deenethorpe?
I have a partial post-war edition edited to display land ownership/roadway removal areas/overhead powerlines etc. but it doesn't have the numbered list of buidings.
RAF Museum Hendon are unsure whether they still hold a copy of the original, so if anyone here has one I'd be grateful to know.
Also, any drawing showing the wartime numbering of the dispersal pans would be of use.
All the best,
Paul
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Paul Bellamy
2/15/2007 1:25:23 PM | Also, does anyone know where the blister hangar used for gunnery training was located at Deenethorpe?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
Paul Bellamy
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Paul Bellamy
2/17/2007 6:54:35 PM | I've been looking as some air-photos taken in 1947 of the base, and the partial plan I have, and there seems to be a building that is about the right shape and size to be a blister hangar located between the Engineering Section and chute shop, and the spectacle dispersals to their north east.
Is that it?
Also, was the gymnasium building on the communal site to the south or the east of the airfield?
Sorry if these questions sound somewhat obscure, I'm just trying to place photos to locations on the base. 😉
All the best,
Paul
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Paul Bellamy
2/20/2007 8:06:11 AM | A chap over here has kindly lent me a copy of the 2 sheets of drawings, and now I've got them in front of me everything makes a lot more sense.
The blister hangar containing the synthetic gunnery setups was indeed located behind the base workshops, beside the AML bombing trainer and the triple Link Trainer building.
The gymnasium (with chapel extension) where the parachute harness training photos were taken was on Communal Site 3, next to the Sgts Mess.
I can now make a start on working through the National Archive photos and locate as many of them onto the base plans as I can.
For example, the photos of the crew of Zenobia El Elephante standing beside the recovered wreckage of their aircraft, with the AML building in the background, shows the wreckage had been piled up beside the workshops, which is quite sensible really.
Keep an eye out for a future thread! 😉
All the best,
Paul
Paul Bellamy
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