Report - RAF Docking - Jan 21

[Bikin Glynn]

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RAF Docking was a satellite airfield for the RAF Coastal Command station at RAF Bircham Newton and was mostly used for overflow from there.
A grass airfield, with eight blister hangars and one A1 hangar, was laid out soon after the outbreak of war and the first squadron to operate from there was No. 235 Squadron RAF using Bristol Blenheims for convoy escort and anti-shipping operations in the North Sea. These were then replaced by the Lockheed Hudson.

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Stumbled upon this one & I missed the control tower which looks like one of the best bits.
these are the buildings I did find.

Standby set house

Now used to store farm equipment

Next was this decontamination building, now occupied by some scary pigeons

Extraction system still in place here

Now again this houses some farm machinery

Finally I had a nosey round the many bunkers on this site

Stumbled on some sort of snail orgy going on in here!

Thanks For Looking​

 

[Down and beyond]

Nice to see the bunker is Now being used as a snail farm !! If the food shortages carry on I no where I am going

 

[Mikeymutt]

Nicely done. This was actually one of my first explores. This cluster of stuff on the corner is a nightmare to get around. I ain't done the tower either. There is a very rare Norcon pillbox somewhere as well I want to see .

 

[Calamity Jane]

I like explores like this, off the tour bus route. Rambling about, discovering the old buildings and then the research. Great to see them.

 

[HughieD]

Nice set mate. Getting through that backlog...

 

[Bikin Glynn]

Nice to see the bunker is Now being used as a snail farm !! If the food shortages carry on I no where I am going

OOh never thought that they may be worth a few quid

Nicely done. This was actually one of my first explores. This cluster of stuff on the corner is a nightmare to get around. I ain't done the tower either. There is a very rare Norcon pillbox somewhere as well I want to see .

I assumed you had been. The control tower actually looks really good so yeah Im deff gonna try & have a look sometime

I like explores like this, off the tour bus route. Rambling about, discovering the old buildings and then the research. Great to see them.

Thanks Jane

Nice set mate. Getting through that backlog...

Very slowly lol

 

[Mikeymutt]

Yeah it was in 2014..I was new so was a bit green on what to look for. I should go back.