Arbroath dump wrecks

In 1969, as a young ATC cadet, I recall climbing over a Sea Vixen and a Javelin here (both derelict). It was quite a climb onto the Jav and as there were no bang seats a risky climb into and out of the cockpit. Anyone got photos of these two?

NISSEN huts

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NISSAN were/are Japanese. They make cars not huts. They lost war.
NISSEN was a British Army officer (Royal Engineers) from a Norwegian American background and designed the NISSEN hut. We won. See the link below for more on the huts.

http://www.nissens.co.uk/default.htm

PS. Just in case anyone is thinking about writing a query about aircraft storage buildings the are called HANGARS.

HANGERS are what you store your trousers on in the wardrobe.

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Tangmere building.

Looks like a Standby Generator building. The plinths in the floor center would have supported the generators.

Tom Doc

Many farms and gardens around RAF Shawbury have benefited from scrapping in the past.

I can recall seeing canopies and radomes in the early ’80s, and I’m sure some will still be there now.

A farm alongside one of the access roads to a dispersal site at Shawbury used to have a length of rectangular-sectioned fuselage in it, presumably as an animal, or maybe animal feed shelter. I always fancied it to be Stirling or York. By the time I was in a position to do anything about it, it had gone.

I think there was mention of a section of Wellington fuselage in use at a Garden Centre (or whatever they were called in the ’60s), somewhere in the Crewe/Nantwich area, but I never tracked that one down.

My Frazer-Nash FN5 Lancaster turret cupola came out of a garden just five years ago. It had previously been used on a farm as a duck shelter.:)

I recall, whilst serving at Shawbury, sitting on the top deck of a bus on the way through the village en route to Shrewsbury, seeing what I took to be Mosquito nose glazing being used as cloches by a gardener. Wish I could recall exactly where but it was right next to a bus stop in the village. Around 1978. or possibly on my second posting there in 1987.

Its true

I used to work with a Canberra Nav involved in the Suez party and he told me the story is true – he witnessed it.