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Report - GPSS Sawtry feb. 23

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Exploring With Pride 🌈

Exploring with pride in more ways than one
28DL Full Member
GPSS Sawtry was a former Government Pipelines and Storage System depot that supplied fuel to RAF Alconbury. It was built on the site of a former Second World War POW Camp and closed sometime around 2007 the site houses 4 large underground fuel storage tanks/pumps aswell as some older surface buildings and 2 large modern warehouse blocks to the rear of the site.

The Explore
After coming across this while browsing google maps on way to another explore the site stood out as military from above and after checking edob online it was listed as a fuel depo so we decided to check it out the next day on the way back home figuring it would probably be a small explore the break up the journey home little did we know we would spend over 2 hours there. As we parked up still not knowing if this was actually still an active site my husband checked his public footpath maps as he always dose and he saw it listed as gpss on there so a quick google and a 28ds post poped up as the first result so yup thats a go! We found an entry point right away and looking just in the first building i knew this was gona be more interesting than we thought full of clutter, signs and crates nothing i love more than a room piled with stuff to rummage through and photograph. Shortly after entering the main site we meet another explorer who mentioned about NATO paperwork in the rear buildings so i was already looking forward to having a look inside but we first headed to the fuel bunkers not long after another group of explorers turned up who we got chating to. They told us apparently there where armadillos in that part of the site until recently which explains the lack of photos inside them on previous reports, once we had finished the fuel bunkers (me wishing we had packed waders 😒) we proceeded to the modern builds and was shocked to see what was inside we definitely understood why they had dillos guarding that place why they removed them i have no idea but there in front of us was 6! Massive portable diesel pumps brand new looking with boxes of spare filters and instructions (although even with that I still couldn't find the on switch)😂 after checking out the other shed that was full of empty part boxes by this point was dark much to my annoyance as i had planned on getting the drone up once back to that car with everything explored and daylight gone tired from a long day we headed home. (thats a lie we drove by an empty school and then did an old railway tunnel)😂 to relax after another great explore.
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Boxed of what I assume are filters i didn't move any to check given what alot of old filters are made of lol
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Unfortunately we couldn't go any further
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The sheds with a surprise inside
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We found the box outside and brought it back in after finding the book
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Then we headed to the gatehouse the only part on the site that has actually been vandalised
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thanks for looking
 

Mikeymutt

28DL Regular User
Regular User
Nice set, looks like loads of interesting things to see. And it’s good it’s not been vandalised.
Was wondering how you managed more than thirty images in the report. I have tried that and it just says thirty is the limit.
Prob best not putting the exact day you visited somewhere.
 

Exploring With Pride 🌈

Exploring with pride in more ways than one
28DL Full Member
Nice set, looks like loads of interesting things to see. And it’s good it’s not been vandalised.
Was wondering how you managed more than thirty images in the report. I have tried that and it just says thirty is the limit.
Prob best not putting the exact day you visited somewhere.
Mite be cos i did them one at a time i was planning on then pasting the blocks of text between the relevant pics but by time i had uploaded them all I forgot 🙄😂😂😂
 

Bikin Glynn

28DL Regular User
Regular User
Nicely covered, Im surprised u met people here I thought this one was off most peoples radar.
there are armadillos around front entrance & west side (these appeared between 2 of my visits) but I wouldn't worry too much about em, these are ones we get selfies cuddling lol
 

Exploring With Pride 🌈

Exploring with pride in more ways than one
28DL Full Member
It's a cool place this, one of the best GPSS sites out there. Didn't think I'd see it again as the whole place was filled with Armadillo things shortly after my visit a few years ago.
Your report was the first result on google search lol yea its a great spot may go back in summer to see if it drys up
 

Exploring With Pride 🌈

Exploring with pride in more ways than one
28DL Full Member
Nicely covered, Im surprised u met people here I thought this one was off most peoples radar.
there are armadillos around front entrance & west side (these appeared between 2 of my visits) but I wouldn't worry too much about em, these are ones we get selfies cuddling lol
Yea me to its fairly out the way and I hadn't seen it po up before online and surprisingly the day before we did the school thats doing the rounds and we didn't see anyone
 

Mikeymutt

28DL Regular User
Regular User
Mite be cos i did them one at a time i was planning on then pasting the blocks of text between the relevant pics but by time i had uploaded them all I forgot 🙄😂😂😂
Ha ha it might be that. I see a few people can upload more than thirty. Maybe I will try individual pics.
 

A man called Martyn

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
Nice to see the war reserve stock pile of emergency diesel pumps. Sawtry was one of a handful of depots to have such warehouses on site.
 
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