New Air Museum in Cornwall?

Annek – please post up the dates (in a new post) when you are doing the airfield walks – I’d be glad to come.

Many thanks,

SoG

Yeah crossed my mind afterwards, they were considered obsolete by ’42. I guess the remote location of Davidstow helped negate some defences.
Funny thing, Ive just been showing some people around the ones here at St Athan.

New Air Museum in Cornwall

Hamilton Retractable Forts – there is no evidence that there were any at Davidstow Moor. No sign on the ground and they are not on any of the airfield plans or diagrams or on the wartime airfield photos. Davidstow did not have pill boxes either. It was built quite late and the initial fears of attack had diminished. Davidstow was never attacked. It did have anti-aircraft batteries and shelters of course.
My husband and I are doing two airfield historic walks in 2008 which will look at the buildings that are there now and those that have been demolished.:D

Yes I will definatly pop by when your open again, I love visiting the airfield as it is.
BTW do you know if it had retractable Hamilton forts on the airfield?

New Air Museum in Cornwall

The Davidstow Moor and Cornwall at War Museum is not to be confused with the smaller Davidstow Memorial Museum although it is closeby.
They have a web address http://cornwallatwarmuseum.mysite.orange.co.uk . It gives you an idea of whats there.
Hope to see you there pagen01

Be nice to see a Cornwall Cosford, a Duchy Duxford, but reallly why would anyone invest in such a major works when it’s so far away from the general population areas. Many other, more practical and money making ideas have foundered because of this.

This was another of the speculative

“we know where they are just need an invester to fund getting them scams”

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/archive/index.php?t-30600.html

Thought it had died a death years ago but reappears in a zombie thread.

Regards
Ross

I heard of some rather vague plans a couple of years ago, but nothing heard since. Davidstow is privately owned and from what I can remember Perranporth was mentioned at the beginning, but this has recently changed hands and I know that the new owner has no plans for a museum of any kind.

Martin

I’ve never heard of such a grand scheme, and I’m sure I would have.
St Eval can’t be built on, still in use as Northwood outpost, and USN use.
Davidstowe is mainly protected forrestry land, and as mentioned, houses a small museum in some of the old RAF buildings.
There was a scheme to have a smallish aircraft collection, supported by Air Atlantic (another thread on it here somewhere) in one of the St Mawgan hangars, but have heard that this is gone by the way side due to lack of council support, and indecission on what buildings the MoD want to keep.

New location for the ex-Flambards Gannet???;)

New Air Museum in Cornwall

The Davidstow Moor and Cornwall at War Museum is located in building on the ww2 airfield. It covers all aspects of historic and modern war in the county and has a research and reading facility. The displays include Army, Navy, Royal Marines and RAF and are in several building that once housed the officers quarters, officers mess, etc. It is open from Easter to the last half term of the year. I highly recommend it.

RE: New Air Museum in Cornwall?

Nope, this is a major project involving, I believe, aquisition of aircraft from the former Soviet Union. I am also led to believe it may be located at a former WW2 aerodrome such as Davidstow or St Eval in north Cornwall.

RE: New Air Museum in Cornwall?

Could it be any of the ex fleet air gate guards?