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Brookesy175
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V-Force Dispersal Accommodation

Post by Brookesy175 » Sun Jun 05, 2022 5:04 pm

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

Post by Brookesy175 » Sun Jun 05, 2022 8:02 pm

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.

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Re: V-Force Dispersal Accommodation

Post by Thunder » Sun Jun 05, 2022 9:52 pm

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

Post by teeonefixer » Sun Jun 05, 2022 11:00 pm

This sounds like a question for PPrune - lots of aircrew on there of the right vintage

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Re: V-Force Dispersal Accommodation

Post by Brookesy175 » Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:28 am

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

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Re: V-Force Dispersal Accommodation

Post by Snapper11 » Tue Jun 07, 2022 1:29 pm

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.

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Re: V-Force Dispersal Accommodation

Post by Brookesy175 » Tue Jun 07, 2022 1:51 pm

Thanks Snapper11 - I'll follow that up. Cheers

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Re: V-Force Dispersal Accommodation

Post by David Thompson » Thu Jun 09, 2022 11:47 pm

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 .
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Re: V-Force Dispersal Accommodation

Post by sherriff » Fri Jun 10, 2022 8:27 am

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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