ref RFC guardrooms
Hi gang!
If an organisation can remove delapidated bldgs and relocate them to a new home, then why can’t the same be done for airfield buildings?
It appauls me that those in powers of high position can spend millions of taxpayers money on crap, but cannot be bothered to do something about the heritage around us that is fast disappearing.
Duxford is a good case of an original 1stww aerodrome that has gone thru the expansion period, thru WW2, and into the 60’s, and has been a crowd puller since it was ‘rescued’. The former RNAS Eastchurch has now been released from the prison services mitts, and it is only thanx to them that the station survived. this will hopefully be an incredible site and museum in the long term, with hopefully flying displays taking place too – i’d love to see something like Old Warden in the south of England. Stowe Maries aerodrome, though considered a ‘quiet’ station compared to the likes of Hainault farm (which is also still relatively intact and used by light industry today) is still relatively intact too, and could be turned into an incredible museum dedicated to the RFC, etc,.
The bods who use the site at present, fly remote control a/c there, and though the owner of the site passed away last year, nobody knows what will happen to it when the dust has settled, and it’s been decided by the family what to do with it, but from what i’ve managed to find out so far, is that the site is relatively intact, one of the hangar bases is now someones house, and a gentleman runs a garage business from the former Officers mess, thereby keeping the local scroates/vandals away!! it would also be a delight to see a former RFC aerodrome ‘brought back to life’ and put to good use. There are many frmer sites which may only have the odd one or two bldgs left on them in poor condition, but surely a way to preserve them would be to relocate them to a site such as Stow Maries, Eastchurch, etc.
The only way i can think of getting a site such as Stow Maries preserved for future generations would be to contact those organisations who have taken over places like East Kirkby, the former RAf technical site (also a RAF museum)& whose name has slipped my mind for the moment, Eden camp, etc, and to see what they say & how they did it!
tim
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