Ex - US Army Hospital Devon

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Ex - US Army Hospital Devon

Oh yeah I can think of no possible better way to preserve and keep something ready for future use other than burying it........
Get real fer christ sakes......
Besides..... .. under the agreed terms and conditions of LeaseLend NONE of the material of war (meaning ANYTHING they supplied us with basically ) could be returned to the USA and ALL of it had to paid for by the British Governement.........therefore anything left over after the war belonged to the UK and was ours to dispose of not the Americans anyway and that included equipment still in US camps or not yet issued from supply bases....
.......thats how and why thousands of trucks / jeeps etc etc etc etc ended up being sold off to private buyers...( 'Ruddington was just one of the places that thousands of trucks / jeeps etc were sold off from.........locally to me the US bases did a roaring trade on 'back door sales' to the public in the immediate months after the war was over)
.....My Granddad made a damn good living out of buying and selling ex- military (British and US) equipment after the war and he would have definately scoffed at anyone suggesting that 'saleable' gear was 'buried'............ besides...........our Government of the day was so desperate for hard cash they would have dug the stuff up themselves to sell it on if this myth had been at all true ..
...The only thing that he ever said he saw deliberately dumped was ammunition...
..Trucks and Jeeps etc buried????
Bought and scrapped by the thousands maybe ........or .......more likely....bought and sold off to private users maybe .................but just buried and left ????
This hoary old tale is just summat that has been naively repeated over the years cos its a nice story and gets folk all excited at the thought of all those glistening gleaming jeeps still in their crates just waiting for you to find ..........
No way sorry.. I ain't buying that myth 'til someone digs a load of them up and if that was gonna happen it would have happened before now especially with a restored Jeep being worth anything from £10 to £20 grand...........

My feelings exactly,Lovely urban myth and id realy love for someone to prove me wrong........... Didn't it happen on german airfields at the end of ww2 though? undergroung ones full of ME 262's and Nazi Flying saucer technology? LOL only joking ......

 

[smileysal]

Excellent pics mate, I do like these. Love the way nature always takes buildings back.

And smiffy, they used to bury airplane parts around lincoln, and other places they built them. Wings, and other parts of planes, wrapped in sackcloth, put into large crates and buried. An old neighbour of my parents when he lived in Lincoln during the war, watched from a wooded area, as they were doing just that. I wasn't as interested in things like that till much later in my life, so never had the chance to go searching for them. He's died now, and so have other members of his family, so can't track exactly whereabouts they did bury them. The area he did tell me about is now a housing estate, and industrial estate and all concreted over, so you'd never find them now even if you did have the equipment - unfortunately. (There is a company who has a radar type machine, that uses sonar to find things that are buried, can't remember the name of the company now either. but they have found buried planes in other parts of the world etc that have been buried in the same way.). Hope that helps?

Sal

 

[escortmad79]

Chances are anything buried at this particular location will be buried under either the golf course or under Trago!

 

[thenoisydrum]

That looks an evil robot with one eye and a leafy eyebrow!

 

[Scotty]

other reports on this site from over the year/s.

8th Dec 07

10th Jul 08

5th Sep 08

14th Dec 08

11th Jan 09

Its nice to see how the buildings has changed over time, both in a good way and bad way.

 

[escortmad79]

My first visit: 28th December 2008

 

[dangerous dave]

Please do not publish the location of this site - even if people know where it is. It is being pulled down this year, and part of it is now under Heritage act as 5 different types of rare bat are livving in the top buildings. The bats will not return if they see people entering the buildings.

Anyway, with that said


all aboard the fail train or did you not clock this

 

[smiffy]

And smiffy, they used to bury airplane parts around lincoln, and other places they built them. Wings, and other parts of planes, wrapped in sackcloth, put into large crates and buried. An old neighbour of my parents when he lived in Lincoln during the war, watched from a wooded area, as they were doing just that. I wasn't as interested in things like that till much later in my life, so never had the chance to go searching for them. He's died now, and so have other members of his family, so can't track exactly whereabouts they did bury them. The area he did tell me about is now a housing estate, and industrial estate and all concreted over, so you'd never find them now even if you did have the equipment - unfortunately. (There is a company who has a radar type machine, that uses sonar to find things that are buried, can't remember the name of the company now either. but they have found buried planes in other parts of the world etc that have been buried in the same way.). Hope that helps?

Sal

I am not trying to argue or annoy anyone Sal but........
....."a neighbour of my parents....whos dead now of course........along with all living relatives.......location completey forgotten now....gone forever......buillt over too !!"
Its all a bit convenient ain't it ????
Its also a bit too like.... ' A cousin of my Uncles best mate who knew a man who had a dog...etc etc etc "

First off.........Just how realiable was this 'old neighbours' 'evidence'????
and more to the point his 'memory'?..
I know loads of old bullshitters around here who will happily sit in the snug bar and for a pint or two tell you just whatever you got a mind to want to hear ...especially if they see yer eyes light up.........
..Its in the nature of old folk to add a little jazz to their tales........ over the years a pile of junk such as a load of tin baths and some tables out of the canteen becomes ...
........ 'Back just after the war it was !!!!! ....Brand spanking new Spitfires they was!!!!!............I'm telling ya!.....wrapped up in teaclothes they was ! as good as new they was!......still lying there now!!!' .....
...etc etc etc or summat similar..........

I stand ready and willing to be completely corrected and proven wrong but.........
..............I repeat.........
Never mind the staggering price of a restored Jeep .......A pile of totally rusty crap which is only just faintly recognisable as once being a Jeep and is only 'restorable' by throwing yet more thousands of pounds at it will still fetch up to 5 Grand ......If there are any buried out there someone would have dug them up by now .........and the same goes for Aircraft and / or parts......
.. never mind what the scrap value was back in the Fifties their value now to vintage aircraft restorers would be absolutely colossal......... Back in the 50s would have been only a few years after they were supposedly buried and when memory / local knowledge of where exactly they were would still have been clear.........so surely someone would have done a little excavating ?????
And finally
.......If the site you are on about was built over then the buildings would have had foundations dug
and roads would have been excavated around the site ...septic tanks would also have been dug out and deep trenches for drains and services etc etc would all have been dug............and with all this activity ....not one piece of an airframe came to light??????
Come on Sal.................

 

[TuningHouse]

Please do not publish the location of this site - even if people know where it is. It is being pulled down this year, and part of it is now under Heritage act as 5 different types of rare bat are livving in the top buildings. The bats will not return if they see people entering the buildings.

Anyway, with that said


all aboard the fail train or did you not clock this

Epic epic fail - i never looked at the properly, and read it as Ford Park, about 3 miles away hahahaha

 

[escortmad79]

That's Forde Park or Forde House

 

[TuningHouse]

Oh well, not as if you all didnt know about the place anyway haha

 

[Fusion87]

I've just created a book with a selection of my photographs from Little Poland on Blurb if anyone is interested. I've also based my whole final year art degree on Little Poland.

Book link http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/680923#book-summary

 

[escortmad79]

Nearly got caught here last week by one of the workmen!

Very close call, but I managed to evade being spotted