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Balado Bridge Airfield
Control Tower (20th Century)
Site Name Balado Bridge Airfield
Classification Control Tower (20th Century)
Canmore ID 274678
Site Number NO00SE 26.01
NGR NO 09709 03608
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/274678
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kinross
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Kinross-shire
NO00SE 26.01 09709 03608
The control tower for Balado Bridge airfield survives at the NE corner of the runways within the eastern perimeter track. The tower is situated on private land.
Known as a fighter satellite station watch office the building is visible on vertical air photographs taken in 1947 (CPE/Scot/UK 290, Pt.III, 5199-5201, flown 2 September 1947).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), September 2005
Standing Building Recording (14 October 2019)
A programme of Historic Building Recording works was undertaken by AKD Archaeology on 14th October 2019, in advance of the demolition and replacement of the Control Tower building at Balado Airfield (MPK: 7782), Kinross. The works were designed to create a competent record of the historic elements of the Control Tower before loss at an Enhanced Level of recording.
The literature associated with the Control Tower confirms that the
pattern of the structure was updated on three separate occasions;
4520/41, 8142/41, 7332/42 (Control Towers.co.uk 2019). It is not
known the exact changes that these pertain to. Although it can be
suggested that there are seven phases in the structures development,
it is possible to record from the survey four phases in the structural
development of the Control Tower.
Information from: Peter Klemen (AKD Archaeology) 23rd October 2019
OASIS ID: akdarcha1-371184
