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Report - RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire - May 2015

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Bertie Bollockbrains

There is no pain
Regular User
Another mini-report from me. This one finishing off the good work of @huey who recently got this site 99% covered in his detailed report here

Well it seems that Huey is not one for getting high and he sent me a few emails telling me of a tower at the airfield that needs climbing. Me being a bit stupid took up the challenge of a long rusty wobbly ladder.

History

Can't really add to Huey's history, save to say that RAF Kemble was built in the 1930s, also used by the Americans, and was home of the Red Arrows from 1966 to 1983. In recent years it has been the privately owned civilian Cotswold Airport. A large aircraft decommissioning company is based here and many planes in various stages of decommissioning can be seen.

Since Huey's report went up it has been announced that there are plans to build a huge housing estate on the airport. About 2000 homes in total. This will of course mean closure of the airport. BBC report here. I suppose it was inevitable that this was going to happen, the council has had numerous noise pollution complaints against the airport in recent years.

The Visit

Not sure what this building was, but I going to guess it's the incinerator for the old RAF Kemble
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And inside we see one wobbly rusty ladder. I wonder why huey wasn't tempted? Guessing it's about 25m high. From the bottom I can see that there is some sort of room at the top.
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Let's start climbing

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And through the hatch to the small room at the top
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I was wetting myself with excitement at this point. I had swapped many emails to plan for this occasion and driven miles out of my way to see this. So what's here......





*drum roll*





.......... (let's keep the suspense for a bit longer)






.......... (are we excited?)



err there's just a poo-covered gas cylinder up here
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and err a dead woodpigeon. I assume the last person up here whacked it with a big stick for shitting on the gas cylinder. Or maybe it got so bored depressed up here he hung himself with the rope
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There's a second very short ladder here that leads to a hatch and out onto the roof. But it was locked.

So with nothing to do I looked out of the window and thought to myself "why?"
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Mr A J Fridge (spelling?) was here in May 1941 and was probably too wondering why he bothered
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Mr G Chew and H Parker came here in 1956
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Having entertained myself for all of 10 seconds, it was time to head back down
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Apologies for boring you. Must try harder.
 
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The Wombat

Mr Wombat
28DL Full Member
hahaha, this report amused me :thumb
We've all spent ages trying to get to something... only to walk away despondent :D
 

Mr Sam

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
always worth looking! the old graffiti is cool

the building attached isn't the boiler room is it?
 

DanMoist

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
Just looked on Google maps and this is now a pile of rubble. However, there is another water tower in the woods about 450m NWW from this one.
 
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