Wartime Airfields Near Harlow Essex.

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Fuel Store pump room

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Fuel compound showing bowser heads and tank vents

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Inside one of the Nissen Huts on the Officers Site

Simple to construct, and lined with fibre board panels, Nissen & Romney Huts were the main form of housing for all ranks. Sparse, and un-insulated, they relied on a pot - bellied stove to provide heat in the winter, and were known to be like hot - houses in the summer months.
 They served as sleeping quarters, and cook - houses; and the larger ones, known as Romney Huts,served  as Cinemas, Canteens, and dining halls, MT ( Motor Transport ) sheds The smaller span Nissen and other types were used for practically every other use conceivable.               

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Nissen Huts on the remaining dispersed site

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Former Camp Cinema

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Aircraft machine gun test fire butts

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Aerial shot of the bomb dump showing the man made lake

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Brick walling inside the Bomb dump at Brickles Wood,

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view down the remaining eastern side perimeter track

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Perimeter Track south East of the Control Tower

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View across the Airfield from the southern side perimetertrack

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B-26 Bombers on Matching sometime after D-Day,(Dane Donato)

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