Week St.Mary ROC Post, Cornwall. January 2011

highcannons · Jan 2, 2011

Week St. Mary ROC was used from 1960 to 1968. Visited by subrit in 2000, nothing much has changed with the exception that some brickwork on the Aircraft Tower has come down and seems to be at the bottom of the ladder. There is still the three inches of water in the bottom of the post.

Vent slats are missing.

The Aircraft Tower is starting to crumble.

Pump is in a very poor state and jammed solid.

Hatch counterweight still operating well.

Hatch is free and easy to lift

Three inches of water in 2000 and three inches of water in 2011!

Week St.Mary ROC is very easy to find as the tower shows from some distance.......

Krypton · Jan 2, 2011

Thats a minger!

Shame about the aircraft post as its quite rare. If i lived closer i would have that restored! It would look awesome painted green!

Goldie87 · Jan 2, 2011

Shame its stripped and flooded, aircraft post isn't too bad mind.

highcannons · Jan 2, 2011

The aircraft post is pretty grim, one upper wall has crumbled since 2000. Unusually for Cornwall this is brick built. Posh houses down here are stone as usual but have brick fancy bits round the windows etc, opposite of the brick house with fancy stone bits up country! They must have brought the bricks down instead of using local stone. Anyrate, the bricks are badly frost damaged where the rendering has gone. You can see the differance in this 2000 photo from subrit

Krypton · Jan 3, 2011

Yeah the whole thing looks like its gonna crumble

You should go and save it!

Goldie87 · Jan 3, 2011

Oh dear, not the worst i've seen though. At some point some of us have got to try and repair a similar one, but the whole upper level is missing!

Krypton · Jan 3, 2011

Goldie87 said:
Oh dear, not the worst i've seen though. At some point some of us have got to try and repair a similar one, but the whole upper level is missing!

You dont happen to have Orlit Plans do you?

Need to get the Orlit repaired this year.....

Lectrician · Jan 3, 2011

I visited this last year, along with several others in the area.

I assumed part of the wall of the tower had crumbled (as mentioned above) - the farmer, I assume, decided to pile all the bricks down the shaft! There is dozens and dozens of bricks at the bottom, which I assume are still there now?

Goldie87 · Jan 3, 2011

Krypton said:
You dont happen to have Orlit Plans do you?

Need to get the Orlit repaired this year.....

Noob error its not an orlit, only the prefab concrete ones are

Your aircraft post should only need cleaning up and a new roof fitting if I remember correctly? I can give you a rough guide on how that should be.

Krypton · Jan 3, 2011

Goldie87 said:
Noob error its not an orlit, only the prefab concrete ones are
Your aircraft post should only need cleaning up and a new roof fitting if I remember correctly? I can give you a rough guide on how that should be.

I meant the Orlit i am getting built on site :mrgreen:

Yes a rough guide would be good and i am building the Micklethwait Post Instrument Plotter, any idea when the Aircraft Post dates from?

Goldie87 · Jan 3, 2011

Krypton said:
I meant the Orlit i am getting built on site

Yes a rough guide would be good and i am building the Micklethwait Post Instrument Plotter, any idea when the Aircraft Post dates from?

How the hell are you getting an orlit up there?!

I'll speak to you about the aircraft post in more detail soon, it dates from 1940 I think.

highcannons · Jan 3, 2011

Lectrician said:
I visited this last year, along with several others in the area.

I assumed part of the wall of the tower had crumbled (as mentioned above) - the farmer, I assume, decided to pile all the bricks down the shaft! There is dozens and dozens of bricks at the bottom, which I assume are still there now?

Tis more likely to be local kids mucking about, the field has winter cabbage growing and this corner of the field is uncultivated. I expect if the farmer wanted it down he would have done a better job. Now the Wadebridge on was done properly in as much as the above ground stuff was used to fill the ladder shaft but - WITH ALL THE INSTRUMENTS STILL THERE! Anybody got a ground radar?

Krypton · Jan 3, 2011

Wadebridge was a 1968 closure, i can guarantee you there will be nothing left down there, possibly an old battery, some rusty beds and a toilet.

In 1968 the ROC was still fully operational and all surplus equipment was put into UKWMO Stores for spares.

highcannons · Jan 4, 2011

I'm not sure now whether it is Orlit plans or these brick jobbies you want - can't find any of them but if it's the brick jobby I can make decent measurements of the Week St.Mary tower and, if someone had photographs of a more complete tower, work the rest from that to produce drawings.....whatever, if you want to follow up let us know.....

Krypton said:
I meant the Orlit i am getting built on site

Yes a rough guide would be good and i am building the Micklethwait Post Instrument Plotter, any idea when the Aircraft Post dates from?

Goldie87 · Jan 4, 2011

highcannons said:
I'm not sure now whether it is Orlit plans or these brick jobbies you want - can't find any of them but if it's the brick jobby I can make decent measurements of the Week St.Mary tower and, if someone had photographs of a more complete tower, work the rest from that to produce drawings.....whatever, if you want to follow up let us know.....

He's got a non orlit one, but its nothing like the brick one in your pics. However measurements and stuff might be of use for a post i'll be helping to restore as its the same as the one pictured. Particularly interested in how high the walls on the upper level are, even a rough estimate would be useful.

Krypton · Jan 4, 2011

Just you wait till i get an Orlit. Tunstall Post has one .....

highcannons · Jan 4, 2011

OK, I'll go back along there soon and measure....

Goldie87 said:
He's got a non orlit one, but its nothing like the brick one in your pics. However measurements and stuff might be of use for a post i'll be helping to restore as its the same as the one pictured. Particularly interested in how high the walls on the upper level are, even a rough estimate would be useful.

Goldie87 · Jan 4, 2011

Krypton said:
Just you wait till i get an Orlit. Tunstall Post has one .....

Good luck shifting it! Thats the problem we have, theres very few local to our post and they always seem to be at sites with no road access. I think the WW2 aircraft post you have is more interesting than an orlit anyway!

highcannons said:
OK, I'll go back along there soon and measure....

Cheers, that will come in very handy when we start work on it

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