Wellesbourne Mountford (Warwickshire) Bomb stores

08 Jan 2020 10:28 #1 by WILLIAMARNOLD
The photoes show 2views of an embanked store one of 2 piles of barbed wire stakes a loading/unloading ramp ? and some more obscure remains they are on and in the northern edge of Wellesbourne wood at approx SP 264 534 and the location corresponds to that described as bomb stores in a reproduced RAF location plan of Wellesbourne Mountford in "Warwickshire Airfields of the Second World War by Graham Smith ISBN 185306875 www.countrysidebooks.co.uk " which i aquired recently and highly recomend as a well researched and well written history of Warwickshire Airfields and more .

Long ago and far away

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08 Jan 2020 15:01 #2 by PETERTHEEATER
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Wellsbourne had an early-war pattern bomb store with an isolated Incendiary Bomb and Pyrotechnic Store (3 compartment version) as shown in your images 1 and 2
There were four HE Bomb Stores Type C being a 35 foot base with a 5 feet high earth traverse (ET) on three sides. An access road ran across the fourth and open side with a separate ET on the outside of the road. The ETs had brick faced ends as shown in your images 4 and 5.

There was, also, two separate Component Stores fully earth traversed with a pedestrian access in the corner of one ET

The Old Maps website has a 2500 scale OS layout on its 1966 list:

www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/427500/255500/12/100954
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08 Jan 2020 18:14 #3 by kebecker
Also visible on the 1945 GE layer
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09 Jan 2020 16:17 #4 by PETERTHEEATER
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The '1945' layer has been censored to erase the airfield and many peripheral features but the censor overlooked some of the BS buildings.
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