Upper Heyford - Nov 2011 (The Command Bunker)

[Knife 04]

The Command Centre from the outside


Blast Door to the bunker


Decontamination Suite


Warning Notice


Photo of the Emergency Action Cell (circa 1986)


As it is today


The Command Centre




Yours truly (ordering in pizza)


Flight Rosta (recognise any names?) – Capt George Kelman? co-author of the (in) famous ‘Gamblers Song Book’


Weapons loads ……………


The map room in the Control Centre ‘had’ a map of Europe and the USSR on the wall. The map was semi ‘removed’ due to its sensitive nature and apparently had pins denoting ‘targets’ in Eastern Europe and USSR!


Alert Status Warning Notices (if ever the balloon did go up!)






Well – that’s it – thanks for looking and apolgies for boring you all! From my point of view I had an absolutely great day looking around inside the old base.
I cannot express enough gratitude to Mr Don Todd, Karen Brock and the Dorchester Group for their time in allowing, arranging and conducting the visit to former RAF Upper Heyford – a great afternoon – thank you!

Victory By Valor

[Richard B]

I enjoyed looking at those pictures, interesting stuff.
cheers Rich.

[roughcutter]

Brilliant thread on my favourite US Base. I was made up in 1990 when the M40 was finished which made life easier for me to get to Heyford (Arley end), then a year later they anounced it's closure!

How frequent are the base tours held?

MarkL

[REF]

Brilliant photos, there is a good thread on AiX on Upper Heyford, runs into several pages:
http://www.airfieldinformationexchange. ... er-Heyford" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Its a great Airfield to look around.

[Knife 04]

Thanks for the comments everybody on all the threads - much appreciated

Richard - great link - will spend tomorrow going through. If you have any more shots would be very interested

All the best

Darren