Biggin Hill lookalike

22 Sep 2009 12:54 #1 by Richard Drew
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I received this email today & I wonder if any AIX group members has any better ideas than me.

Dear Richard,
I'm writing from a TV Company based in London. We're producing a drama/ documentary about the Battle of Britain and I'm looking for a location which could double for Biggin Hill.
Its proving quiet difficult to find and I was looking at your website last night and wondered if you might have any suggestions.
To date I've looked at Northolt, Duxford, Bicester, Halton, North Weald, Rougham, Headcorn and Twinwood. All of which have some great features but overall don't work. Ideally I'm looking for an airfield that still has an airstrip (a quiet one) plus a couple of hangers, blast pens and a few technical buildings grouped fairly close together. The buildings don't need to be habitable but with minimal cosmetic work on the outside could be camouflaged again.
Do let me know if you have come across anything like this. I fear I maybe looking for the impossible!
Kind regards,
Louise


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22 Sep 2009 15:31 #2 by WJT
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Coltishall. The hangars are wrong, but there are still a couple of genuine WW2 blast pens.

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22 Sep 2009 16:35 #3 by Richard Drew
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When Louise emailed me I replied as you do about blast pens but the type at Biggin & Kenley are straight E type unlike Harrowbeer, Exeter, Charlton Horethorne, Etc which are Type B FCW4513 style (page 26British Military Airfields by Paul).

Which type are at Coltishall??

And does anybody have a link with Re en-actors? to help her in her filming.

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22 Sep 2009 19:48 #4 by Peter Kirk
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Kenley has the pens and a landing area possibly but no buildings.
Biggin Hill Would have had older type hangars, including a single Belfast Truss (I think) in 1940, after the major attacks and the attentions of the Station Commander, no hangars.
Biggin also had a concrete runways in 1940, although the grass would still have been used I suspect.

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22 Sep 2009 20:03 #5 by Richard Drew
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Yes I think grass is safer as you always see fighters scrambled running across the grass.

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23 Sep 2009 20:00 #6 by REF
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I had the same email from her too, but as I have been busy for a few days I've not had the chance to reply yet.

North Weald would be my suggestion, it has a couple of fighter pens, T2 Hangars (though not original to the airfield) and an A type. There are some nissen huts used by the flying club as well.

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23 Sep 2009 20:54 #7 by Paul Francis
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Single but tripple span GS shed PNK at Biggin Hill in 1940, before the Luftwaffe erased it from the map.

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