Ok – now point out the Nissan hut I stayed in as an Air Cadet on summer camp in, about, 1968!

– Pedantic Mode –
This wouldn’t be possible, because Nissan huts don’t exist. You want a Nissen hut, unless this is some new model of Japanese car that I don’t know about!

What I find quite interesting in all this is that the photos were taken on 26 July 1937. However, according to Action Stations Volume 1, Marham re-opened as a two-squadron heavy bomber station on 1 April 1937. Clearly, even three months after the station opened, it wasn’t ready for service occupation, but yet No 38 Squadron moved in at 0930 on 5 May 1937. I suspect they must have been relatively uncomfortable for a while!

Definitely Marham:

Damien,

Thanks very much indeed for this. It looks pretty conclusive. Are you sure that none of the other possibles would be similar, ie is it possible that they were built to a standard layout and the buildings would therefore be in the same relative positions?

I’ve just received the original prints in the post today. In the last of the four photos, the contractor’s lorry has a name on the side. This appears to read HANMANT and I wondered if anyone recognises this as a local building firm’s name. Perhaps it is a useful clue – or perhaps it is a useless piece of information!

Radar: Where did the photos come from?

I’ve just bought them on eBay, so sadly I have no provenance as to where they originated from. I don’t yet have the originals – the images are the scans which were on the eBay page.

So that presumably would leave us with one of the following:

Dishforth…………..1936
Driffield…………….1936
Feltwell…………….1937
Finningley………….1936
Leconfield………….1936
Linton on Ouse…….1937
Marham…………….1937
Newton……………..1937
Stradishall………….1938
Waddington………..1916 (originally)

Will she definitely be able to leave the hangar once all the bits are reattached ? I know there was some talk about this being difficult to say the least.

I don’t think there is any intention that she should leave the hangar once reassembled. She isn’t going to fly and would disintegrate very quickly if left outside in the elements, and they certainly aren’t going to wheel a large aircraft like that in and out all the time. So, as far as I know, once put back together the Concorde will remain in that hangar permanently (unless the museum manages to build a purpose-built building on newly-acquired land nearby).