Hunsdon Surviving Airfield buildings and structures.

RAF Hunsdon- Surviving Airfield buildings and structures.

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Airfield buildings and structures

Interior of sleeping shelter

These sleeping shelters were built to design No 15476/40. They are located behind the dispersal pan that used to be on the southern side of the airfield. Their original use was to provide a safe shelter for pilots and Navigators who were 'at readyness'. The brackets that supported the bunk beds are still fixed to the walls. This area once contained a recreation room of which just the base remains, latrines and a little further south are the Searchlight crew's latrines and drying rooms, these are now ruins but the sleeping shelters remain in very good condition.

Several interesting items have been found near this spot including brocken crockery bearing NAAFI (Navy, Army ,air forces Institute) and RAF crests, and the dates 1942-3. Small pieces of aircraft components and signal flare cartridge cases have also been found nearby.

interior of sleeping shelter

Above is the Parachute store design No 17865/39, this building is sadly under threat of demolition due to its frail condition.

Then and now image showing the AOC of 11 Group Fighter Command HWL Saunders and Group Captain John Cunningham May 1943 © Imperial War Museum.

Type: fire Tender Shelter

now used as gun club office.

Type: 20mm calibre Ammunition Store

for storage of aircraft 20mm cannonammunition. Blackhut Wood

Type: Small Arms ammunition Store

Rare example of a below ground level SAA store

Type: Drying room and latrine

The above image shows the Searchlight crews latrines and clothing drying room. The small brick built square in the foreground is the black-out porch for a Nissen hut that was the searchlight crews barrack hut. The hut has long gone but the concrete floor remains.

location: Tuck Spring Wood.

RAF Hunsdon dispersed sites

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