Greenham Common airbase, or what's left of the airbase, has been well covered here, except for this bit. In fact, on the whole of the interwebs I can only find 2 pictures of the scoreboard. Here come numbers 3+.
So this is about the old baseball diamond, or rather, the scoreboard and the one remaining bleachers. I've been looking for these for ages, but have failed previously, because there are two old diamonds. One, clearly visible on Google Earth, though invisible at ground level, is near the east end of the runway, and, look though I may, I couldn't find any damned scoreboard there.
BUT, there's another diamond, outside what would have been the main compound, and it's north of the west end of the runway, and it's now a general playing field next to a housing estate. On GEarth you can just see the scoreboard, due to its shadow, and nearby also visible is the original water tower.
So, in a very rare spot of Sunday morning sunshine, my brand new camera and I set off.
First, the old bleachers:
There's the water tower in the background.
And now the scoreboard:
Alan.
So this is about the old baseball diamond, or rather, the scoreboard and the one remaining bleachers. I've been looking for these for ages, but have failed previously, because there are two old diamonds. One, clearly visible on Google Earth, though invisible at ground level, is near the east end of the runway, and, look though I may, I couldn't find any damned scoreboard there.
BUT, there's another diamond, outside what would have been the main compound, and it's north of the west end of the runway, and it's now a general playing field next to a housing estate. On GEarth you can just see the scoreboard, due to its shadow, and nearby also visible is the original water tower.
So, in a very rare spot of Sunday morning sunshine, my brand new camera and I set off.
First, the old bleachers:
There's the water tower in the background.
And now the scoreboard:
Alan.
