Shoreham Dome Shape Building??

When did you last see inside the one at Langham?

Hi Richard

Summer of 2004 (or maybe 2003?) – I happened to be driving past when I saw there was a reasonably large gap/hole in the main door. Although it was too dark to see detail clearly through the hole given the very bright daylight outside, but inspection of a photo taken by poking the camera lens through the hole (and taken with flash) showed lots of decay and typical small “stalactite” type growths where rain/damp had presumably been penetrating the structure and leaching out salts etc.

It would be good to hear one of these domes had been fully restored on the inside as well as the outside. As has been said, these are rare structures, though with Shoreham being my closest airfield I guess I take them for granted.

Paul F

Let’s hope Shoreham’s stays where it is then as from what I understand, these are pretty rare ‘fixtures’ these days.

Chris

Gunnery training building is what it was, though various idea’s have been put about as to it’s wartime use the main one being that it was used as a temporary control centre, as a back note several attempts were made to remove it in times past but it is what you might call ‘Built’ and so far has resisted all attempts too dislodge it, last time I was over there in the summer the main door was open but it contained nothing of interest though I beleive at various times it has been used to as a store.

Yes, they have a tendancy to be built like the proverbial brick ****house so they take a bit of removing. IIRC the removal of Kidlington’s took a sizeable amount of stuff that goes bang.

Paul

When did you last see inside the one at Langham?

Richard

Lets hope it doesn’t get removed, it is part of the scenery at shoreham!! Maybe it should be restored like the one at Langham

The Langham dome was in pretty poor shape inside when I last saw it in 🙁 – has the interior been restored too, or just the exterior?

Paul F

Lets hope it doesn’t get removed, it is part of the scenery at shoreham!! Maybe it should be restored like the one at Langham

Gunnery training building is what it was, though various idea’s have been put about as to it’s wartime use the main one being that it was used as a temporary control centre, as a back note several attempts were made to remove it in times past but it is what you might call ‘Built’ and so far has resisted all attempts too dislodge it, last time I was over there in the summer the main door was open but it contained nothing of interest though I beleive at various times it has been used to as a store.

Gunnery trainer building*, as shown on this page at Wyton…

http://www.century20war.co.uk/page18.html

(*I suspect, from my recollection of infant school RAF buildings lessons)