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V-Force Dispersal Accommodation
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V-Force Dispersal Accommodation
I would be interested to hear about the type of temporary accommodation provided for V-Force air and ground crews at the various Cold War period dispersal sites. It seems that some were mobile/caravan type units - are there any still around - but at least one site (Bedford) had a 'village' of prefabricated type buildings with brick power and heating buildings. No info in English Heritage 'Cold War' publication. Any info, links etc much appreciated - photos particularly. Thanks in advance.
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Re: V-Force Dispersal Accommodation
Hi Brookesy, have you tried these folks
https://www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum
or some of these
http://www.ukairfields.org.uk/links.html
or these
https://historicengland.org.uk/research ... airfields/
https://www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum
or some of these
http://www.ukairfields.org.uk/links.html
or these
https://historicengland.org.uk/research ... airfields/
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Re: V-Force Dispersal Accommodation
Hi mushbuster and thanks for the links. I am a member of ARG and in touch with Wayne Cocroft of English Heritage; regrettably neither can throw any light on the subject. I have previously drawn a blank with ukairfields but I will certainly trawl through all their external links again just in case. Best wishes.
Re: V-Force Dispersal Accommodation
RAF Lossiemouth had several wooden huts at the Eastern end of D Hard for QRA Vulcans. These housed operation facilities along with sleeping accommodation. They were demolished in the early 90’s.
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Re: V-Force Dispersal Accommodation
This sounds like a question for PPrune - lots of aircrew on there of the right vintage
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Thanks for the advices; I don't suppose any images exist of the huts at Lossie - not the sort of thing anyone thinks of photographing! Cheers
Re: V-Force Dispersal Accommodation
In Tony Blackman's book "Valiant Boys", Anthony Wright describes the caravan accommodation at dispersal sites in some detail in Chapter 16. There's also a decent black and white photo of one in the plates between pages 160 and 161.
Hope this helps
Hope this helps
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Re: V-Force Dispersal Accommodation
Thanks Snapper11 - I'll follow that up. Cheers
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I have photos of the Teesside Airport/Middleton St George dispersal buildings which I took in June 2012 but which have since been demolished .
Message me your contact details and I will send you what I have .
Message me your contact details and I will send you what I have .
Youth is wasted on the young !
Re: V-Force Dispersal Accommodation
V Force QRA pans at Finningley (DSA) are on the SW boundary fence. Usually Scampton birds detached there. From memory, the accommodation was huts for the technical and ops functions. Caravans may have been for aircrew sleeping. I clearly remember working in the ops hut maintaining comms/met faxes & printers etc during dets. Judging by google earth there appears to be a couple of buildings remaining on the ops area in between the pans. My time there was in '72 so can't verify the aircrew were in caravans but have a strong feeling they were. ('72 is a long time ago !)
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