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Wick Airfield, Bomb Stores
Bomb Store (20th Century)
Site Name Wick Airfield, Bomb Stores
Classification Bomb Store (20th Century)
Canmore ID 172647
Site Number ND35SE 103.02
NGR ND 3630 5315
NGR Description Centred ND 3630 5315
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/172647
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND35SE 103.02 centred 3630 5315
The bomb store, which is situated on the N side of the airfield consists of six separate groups of brick and concrete sheds. There are two groups of six sheds, on egroup of four and three single bunkers set apart. The separate sheds and bunkers representing the differing types of bombs stored here.
Each group is protected by an earth bank topped by concrete. Between the sheds are concrete 'roads' with steel gantries supporting a continuous steel beam running above the roadway. A steel beam connects from the longtidunal beam running above the roadway into and through the doors of each shed. This system of overhead gantry was to extract bombs from store and transport them to a point where they could be loaded onto specially designed trailers behind runway tractors. Internally some signage survives, notably to show 'safe working load 2 x 1 tons' and most of the doors to the sheds remain in place.
The bomb store retains the hooks to fix camouflage netting.
Vsited by RCAHMS, November 2001.
