late april, I found myself on the notts/leics border at Wymeswold, site of a WW2 airfield, and now the place to see (or drive, if you have one
) very expensive cars, being driven around by people with lots of points on their licences, on track days.
a remnant from the old airstrip days...
Nice as it was, to hear the great sound of TVR's, lambo's Etc, being screamed around the track, what i came to find was the Battle headquarters (and any other pillboxes,other interesting WW2 stuff)
after a bit of searching, i soon found i was standing near the unmistakable shape of the BHQ cupola,it is to be found at SK5914 2183 according to my Etrex GPS
It looked to be in pretty poor condition, and as i looked for the entrance to the messenger's room, it was obvious that a hell of a lot of water had found it's way in there over the years, the steps could hardly be seen, and were very overgrown with nettles and brambles,
the entrance near the cupola though, was accessible,
view inside the small cupola room, which at one time would have had a view through the narrow observation slit, of the whole triangular airstrip...
the annexe leading to the messengers room was very waterlogged...
cupola entrance to the left, submerged steps to the messngr room to the front...
the best pics i could get of this area, with very wet feet, are below....
entrance...
messenger room...
difficult to get an idea of the size of this room with the water level dominating it. (may have to get/borrow a petrol powered pump if recent explores are anything to go by! i'm not joking)
dissapointing, as i had hoped to see a good BHQ, as always, any comments, corrections, suggestions for better, similar sites are more than welcome! thanks for looking.
) very expensive cars, being driven around by people with lots of points on their licences, on track days.
a remnant from the old airstrip days...
Nice as it was, to hear the great sound of TVR's, lambo's Etc, being screamed around the track, what i came to find was the Battle headquarters (and any other pillboxes,other interesting WW2 stuff)
after a bit of searching, i soon found i was standing near the unmistakable shape of the BHQ cupola,it is to be found at SK5914 2183 according to my Etrex GPS
It looked to be in pretty poor condition, and as i looked for the entrance to the messenger's room, it was obvious that a hell of a lot of water had found it's way in there over the years, the steps could hardly be seen, and were very overgrown with nettles and brambles,
the entrance near the cupola though, was accessible,
view inside the small cupola room, which at one time would have had a view through the narrow observation slit, of the whole triangular airstrip...
the annexe leading to the messengers room was very waterlogged...
cupola entrance to the left, submerged steps to the messngr room to the front...
the best pics i could get of this area, with very wet feet, are below....
entrance...
messenger room...
difficult to get an idea of the size of this room with the water level dominating it. (may have to get/borrow a petrol powered pump if recent explores are anything to go by! i'm not joking)
dissapointing, as i had hoped to see a good BHQ, as always, any comments, corrections, suggestions for better, similar sites are more than welcome! thanks for looking.
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