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        Airfield buildings and structures

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These sleeping shelters were built to design No 15476/40.  They  are located behind the dispersal pan that used to be on the southern side of the airfield. Their original use was to provide a safe shelter for pilots and Navigators who were 'at readyness'. The brackets that supported the bunk beds are still fixed to the walls , this area once contained a recreation room of which just the base remains, latrines and a little further south the Searchlight buildings, these are now ruins but the sleeping shelters remain in very good condition.
 Several interesting items have been found near this spot including brocken crockery bearing  NAAFI (Navy, Army ,air forces Institute) and RAF crests, and the dates 1942-3. Small pieces of aircraft components and signal flare cartridge cases have also been found nearby.

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                               Searchlight building

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Above is the Parachute store design No 17865/39, this fine piece of airfield architecture is sadly under threat of demolition due to its frail condition. if any building deserves to be saved at all on Hunsdon its this one.

'Extra Over Blister Hangar' of the type12532/41
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Sadly now long gone

Above is an image of the last remaining blister hangar at Hunsdon that was demolished several years ago. It was an 'Over' blister of 65 foot in span, 45 foot in length, and originally fiited with canvas curtains at each end.

Another building sadly departed was the old Gym
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Also used as the Station Church or chapel

Gymnasium, 14604/40, this doubled as a church or chapel and  sometimes was used as a theatre. This building sadly made way for a private house. It was situated at Hunsdonbury and was next to the airfields sportsfield, now a horse paddock.

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Building 125, this was the R/T or radio telephone building now in ruins  in Blackhut wood behind the microlight club.

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