Archaeology Notes

Event ID 749908

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT18SE 18.00 centred 1600 8400

NT18SE 30.01 NT 1640 8443 Pillbox

NT18SE 30.02 NT 1575 8434 Air Raid Shelter

NT18SE 30.03 NT 1617 8427 Building

NT18SE 30.04 NT 1754 8431 Radio Beacon

NT18SE 30.05 NT 16343 84372 Huts

Opened in 1917 as a landing ground, and handed over to the RNAS in August of that year it was reduced to Care and Maintainance in 1921, re-opening in 1925 as a shore base for disembarked naval aircraft.

After closure in the 1950s the site has been built on by an industrial and housing estates. No hangars survive, but some barrack blocks are still in use as offices, and some stretches of runway survive with the dotted white centre line markings. In the former red-brick officers mess is a fine coloured dado cartoon mural, depicting aircrew and officers as egyptians undertaking airfield and administative tasks.

D J Smith 1983; RCAHMS 1999