Fiskerton Today

Dez
Managed to look in the tower at Finmere a few years back.
Full of crud downstairs although we were able to walk around. Quite good nick considering. Tiles and paint still on walls. Upstairs all internal walls have been removed but where they were is visible. Roof was leaking in a few spots resulting in some largish puddles on the floor.
In the woods were several buildings of sorts mostly bunker types although we didn’t look in the woods as we were wrong side of the fence.

I too love looking around these old buildings… Something you just can’t quite put your finger on about doing it.

OAW

Not a base for Nissen, Romney or Maycrete Huts of any description, this type of building had an ordinary Concrete base.
Sprung floor for a gymnasium?, very much doubt it, of the two types of Gymnasium built to Ministry specs for airfields neither had a sprung floor.
They look like roof trusses from a Hanger T1/T2 type ish, but what are they doing at regular spaces set out on the ground?, unless a Hanger was demolished at an early date and the roof trusses were laid out for another use.
The original airfield plans are the only way to identify particular buildings for sure, but these plans are rare as rocking horse dung.

Nice photos.

Neal

There’s definitely something about old/disused airfields.
Well done Steve, you’ve caught the atmosphere there well.
Brings back memories of prowling around Suffolk, 20 odd years ago, armed with Action Stations.

Superb pics Hattton, like many other people ‘Old Airfields’ have an appeal, not sure how or why just something… :confused:

I live near Finmere and quite often ive driven by on a late summers evening, stopped and had a look, i’d love to get closer to the tower but i have had a ‘sneak’ at what used to be the main entrance where there are some buildings and bunkers still standing…super stuff

Yes please Ashley.

On the subject of those trusses. This is only an educated guess, but the station Gym / Cinema / Dance Hall often had a ‘sprung’ floor composed of wood over something that gave it an amount of ‘bounce’. I wonder if this could be the remains once the floor has gone?

Moggy

GREAT PICS!! I love old airfields at dusk. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Thats sounds like a step in the rihgt direction. Will try and do a little research into this. More airfields will be coming up in the next few months.

steve

Ashley, Duxford OM photos? Yes please.

Yes please Ashley.

On the subject of those trusses. This is only an educated guess, but the station Gym / Cinema / Dance Hall often had a ‘sprung’ floor composed of wood over something that gave it an amount of ‘bounce’. I wonder if this could be the remains once the floor has gone?

Moggy

GREAT PICS!! I love old airfields at dusk. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Thank you for posting these Hatton, I enjoyed looking at them 🙂 I find old RAF buildings and sites absolutely fascinating – more more run down they are, the more fascinating they become (something about them being untouched I think)

On a similar vein, I have a collection of photos of the unrestored parts of the Officers’ Mess…anyone interested?

I quite often stop at the memorial on the runway to read the poems and listen to the birdsong..Bardney is well worth a walk around, although i think you can only get access to the forestry site on the north of the airfield

Cup of coffee and a bowl of pasta? Sounds suspiciously like a student dinner that does mate. 😉

darn it! cover blown! the pasta is very nice by the way. The photos were taken on the digi camera option on the xm2 with a polarising filter. When the kodak porta films comes in the post (hurry up 7dayshop!!!) , I shall do some better ones hopefully.

Lovelly pics – could those bars be the rails along which hanger doors may have ran?

I don’t know for sure, merely speculating – but they do have a familiarity about them.

Or maybe the bed upon which a temporary metal runway may have been laid?

I’m probably way off.

Could they have anything to do with this pump up aerial?

Cup of coffee and a bowl of pasta? Sounds suspiciously like a student dinner that does mate. 😉

As for the rusted cross-members, I don’t know for sure, but I’d take an educated guess at them being floor trusses from a Nissen hut or some other similar temporary building.

Great pictures, I could sit and look at those all day. I adore old airfields, there’s something incredibly serene about them.

this is what it looked like at about 8.20pm, it would have been a fair bit darker when the lanc returned home.

the last couple of pics were taken on the way home,

right! im off for a cup of coffee and a bowl of pasta 🙂

and more,

anyone know what these are?

huts and buildings in the overgrowth, you wouldn’t even know they were there unless you got yourself covered in nettles finding them 🙂

first bunch,

I have never said more than hi To Ray and exchanged a smile when i have seen him at shows never had the courage to try and chat with him.