I have drove past this so many times over the years and always been curious about it. But always looked tight with bars on most windows. I had spotted what looked like maybe a way in a little while back. So went to have a look and low and behold it was an opening. It was though on a main road in an industrial estate with a police station up the road. So just waited for it to go quiet and got in quickly and not so gracefully ha ha. The block is the former station HQ for the former RAF base. It was last used for offices for the Heatrae Sadia group that was based behind it, they closed the whole Norwich site a couple of years ago. But they had not used the admin block for so long I can't even remember when it was in use last. I have not seen any pics from here or know anyone who has been in. So was curious, did it have any retro office equipment in. Did it have any original features, or had it been modernised. Well it had been stripped which was I expected if I am honest. Upstairs had been modernised. But downstairs still has the nice corridors and original doors. Even saw glimpses of the original parquet flooring. It's built to a fairly standard RAF type design seen on a lot of the old former RAF stations. Raynham and Coltishall still have there Station HQs. It was a nice explore and fairly clean throughout and was nice to finally see inside another HQ.
RAF Horsham St Faiths was a former bomber command airfield that began life in June 1940. From 1942 the Americans took over the base and it is as expanded with new concrete runways and taxiways. The site had five hangars plus the standard range of buildings seen in these airfields. Many still stand, some in use and a few derelict. I did try another one with no joy. The airfield continued use after the war in to the cold war by the RAF again. It finally closed in 1967 and has since been developed into Norwich International Airport.
Externally it's like most HQs
The upstair offices have been modernised.
Liked this heating control box
Downstairs has a more military feel to it.
This circle in the roof, I am not sure if original or not. But above it they had a,circular rail which was random with no opening.
Very big safe
The circular rail.
RAF Horsham St Faiths was a former bomber command airfield that began life in June 1940. From 1942 the Americans took over the base and it is as expanded with new concrete runways and taxiways. The site had five hangars plus the standard range of buildings seen in these airfields. Many still stand, some in use and a few derelict. I did try another one with no joy. The airfield continued use after the war in to the cold war by the RAF again. It finally closed in 1967 and has since been developed into Norwich International Airport.
Externally it's like most HQs
The upstair offices have been modernised.
Liked this heating control box
Downstairs has a more military feel to it.
This circle in the roof, I am not sure if original or not. But above it they had a,circular rail which was random with no opening.
Very big safe
The circular rail.